Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

drexplain.com

Software to author online user documentation manuals and create software help files and user guides and instructions - Dr.Explain

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

866 ms

Page Rendered

670 ms

drexplain.com screenshot

About Website

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Dr.Explain is a software to quickly create software help files, online help, user manuals, user guides, instructions & user documentation

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Key Findings

We analyzed Drexplain.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

drexplain.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

drexplain.com

27 ms

drexplain.com

16 ms

www.drexplain.com

64 ms

css

66 ms

css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Drexplain.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (335 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Drexplain.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 745.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 9.1 kB, which is 14% 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 48.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 745.3 kB
  • After minification 730.9 kB

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. Dr Explain images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 312.0 kB
  • After minification 312.0 kB
  • After compression 310.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 44.8 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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. Drexplain.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (24%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dr Explain. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

drexplain.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

drexplain.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

drexplain.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Drexplain.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Drexplain.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dr Explain. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: