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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dressfinder.ca

The Dressfinder | Wedding & Special Occasion Dresses in Canada

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

921 ms

dressfinder.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit dressfinder.ca now to see the best up-to-date Dressfinder content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dressfinder.ca

Every Wedding & Special Occasion dress available in Canada, by designer, style or price, including locator & availability info. Create your favourite list, book appointments, pre-order.

Visit dressfinder.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Dressfinder.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dressfinder.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.107

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dressfinder.ca

265 ms

dressfinder.ca

616 ms

site.css

185 ms

dresses.css

338 ms

filmstrip.css

391 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Dressfinder.ca, 20% (21 requests) were made to Bridalnetwork.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Bridalnetwork.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 272.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dressfinder.ca main page is 8.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 48.7 kB
  • After compression 9.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.5 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 51.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 7.6 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Dressfinder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 134.4 kB

  • Original 329.6 kB
  • After minification 329.6 kB
  • After compression 195.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 134.4 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 16.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Dressfinder.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.2 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (23%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dressfinder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dressfinder.ca

dressfinder.ca

265 ms

dressfinder.ca

dressfinder.ca

616 ms

site.css

site.css

185 ms

dresses.css

dresses.css

338 ms

filmstrip.css

filmstrip.css

391 ms

default.css

default.css

408 ms

v2.css

v2.css

405 ms

jquery-1.12.2.min.js

jquery-1.12.2.min.js

586 ms

js

js

68 ms

jquery.geolocation.min.js

jquery.geolocation.min.js

395 ms

udf.js

udf.js

642 ms

site.js

site.js

803 ms

timeline.js

timeline.js

788 ms

gowns.js

gowns.js

728 ms

js

js

61 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

50 ms

css

css

28 ms

css

css

45 ms

66.css

66.css

397 ms

Raleway.css

Raleway.css

401 ms

OpenSans.css

OpenSans.css

406 ms

OpenSansCondensed.css

OpenSansCondensed.css

383 ms

Lobster.css

Lobster.css

397 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

153 ms

Collage-435-2024-10-14-LAmourbyCallaBlanche.jpg

Collage-435-2024-10-14-LAmourbyCallaBlanche.jpg

3078 ms

Collage-609-2024-4-14-ZavanaCouture.jpg

Collage-609-2024-4-14-ZavanaCouture.jpg

2569 ms

Collage-657-2024-4-14-LeBlanc.jpg

Collage-657-2024-4-14-LeBlanc.jpg

2384 ms

Collage-631-2024-10-14-LaPerle.jpg

Collage-631-2024-10-14-LaPerle.jpg

3216 ms

Collage-301-2024-10-14-CallaBlanche.jpg

Collage-301-2024-10-14-CallaBlanche.jpg

1191 ms

Collage-556-2024-10-14-WhiteApril.jpg

Collage-556-2024-10-14-WhiteApril.jpg

2803 ms

Collage-381-2024-10-14-AngelaAlison.jpg

Collage-381-2024-10-14-AngelaAlison.jpg

1777 ms

Collage-555-2024-10-14-ZavanaBridal.jpg

Collage-555-2024-10-14-ZavanaBridal.jpg

2217 ms

Collage-273-2024-4-14-CameronBlake.jpg

Collage-273-2024-4-14-CameronBlake.jpg

2802 ms

Collage-589-2024-4-14-WeddingSociete.jpg

Collage-589-2024-4-14-WeddingSociete.jpg

4171 ms

Collage-127-2024-10-14-AllureBridals.jpg

Collage-127-2024-10-14-AllureBridals.jpg

3628 ms

Collage-234-2024-10-14-MadisonJames.jpg

Collage-234-2024-10-14-MadisonJames.jpg

3315 ms

logo_h.png

logo_h.png

484 ms

search.png

search.png

322 ms

favourite1.png

favourite1.png

400 ms

messages.png

messages.png

326 ms

menu.png

menu.png

397 ms

rwd.png

rwd.png

396 ms

ffwd.png

ffwd.png

710 ms

back.png

back.png

710 ms

popup.png

popup.png

815 ms

dfThinker.gif

dfThinker.gif

795 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

787 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

879 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

1115 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

1087 ms

search_header.png

search_header.png

1197 ms

option-search.png

option-search.png

1176 ms

forward.png

forward.png

1209 ms

text-search.png

text-search.png

1254 ms

menu_header.png

menu_header.png

1474 ms

user.png

user.png

1504 ms

dresses.png

dresses.png

1566 ms

deal.png

deal.png

1597 ms

handshake.png

handshake.png

1604 ms

user-settings.png

user-settings.png

1644 ms

down.png

down.png

1862 ms

selectGownType1.png

selectGownType1.png

1909 ms

selectGownType2.png

selectGownType2.png

1987 ms

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selectGownType3.png

1988 ms

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selectGownType4.png

2004 ms

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selectGownType8.png

2034 ms

selectGownType0.png

selectGownType0.png

2254 ms

GeoRegion131.png

GeoRegion131.png

2304 ms

GeoRegion133.png

GeoRegion133.png

2378 ms

GeoRegion432.png

GeoRegion432.png

2360 ms

locatorFFF.png

locatorFFF.png

2348 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

144 ms

loadator.gif

loadator.gif

2430 ms

font

font

132 ms

font

font

195 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

12 ms

44 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2339 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2383 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2344 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2364 ms

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timelineImg.cfm

2393 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2065 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

1947 ms

timelineImg.cfm

timelineImg.cfm

2058 ms

getTimelineEvents.cfm

getTimelineEvents.cfm

1993 ms

getTimelineAds.cfm

getTimelineAds.cfm

2022 ms

OpenSans-Semibold.ttf

OpenSans-Semibold.ttf

2548 ms

OpenSans.ttf

OpenSans.ttf

2266 ms

OpenSans-Light.ttf

OpenSans-Light.ttf

3504 ms

Raleway-ExtraLight.ttf

Raleway-ExtraLight.ttf

2044 ms

getTimelineAds.cfm

getTimelineAds.cfm

344 ms

70581-271349.jpg

70581-271349.jpg

921 ms

getTimelineAds.cfm

getTimelineAds.cfm

287 ms

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785 ms

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1190 ms

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826 ms

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1510 ms

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1607 ms

getTimelineAds.cfm

getTimelineAds.cfm

232 ms

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70477-270945.jpg

1059 ms

70703-271831.jpg

70703-271831.jpg

1259 ms

timelineAd.cfm

timelineAd.cfm

239 ms

banner.cfm

banner.cfm

117 ms

Accessibility Review

dressfinder.ca accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dressfinder.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dressfinder.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dressfinder.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dressfinder.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

dressfinder.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Dressfinder. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: