Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

lifeofdad.com

Home - Life of Dad

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

862 ms

lifeofdad.com screenshot

About Website

Visit lifeofdad.com now to see the best up-to-date Life Of Dad content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about lifeofdad.com

Life of Dad is the first ever and fastest growing social network for dads.  Featuring thousands of blogs, videos, podcasts and more, Life of Dad is the one-stop entertainment destination for fathers. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lifeofdad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lifeofdad.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lifeofdad.com

277 ms

www.lifeofdad.com

426 ms

g=cssLOD

354 ms

g=jsLOD

674 ms

widgets.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Lifeofdad.com, 30% (36 requests) were made to Classes.lifeofdad.com and 13% (16 requests) were made to Cdn.lifeofdad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Classes.lifeofdad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Lifeofdad.com main page is 5.1 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 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 174.0 kB

  • Original 196.7 kB
  • After minification 174.8 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 21.9 kB, which is 11% 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 174.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 169.2 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Life Of Dad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 32.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (24%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

90

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Life Of Dad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lifeofdad.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

lifeofdad.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lifeofdad.com SEO score

78

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lifeofdad.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 Lifeofdad.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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