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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

therealdirt.com

The Real Dirt Podcast with Chip Baker | Cannabis Entrepreneur's Podcast

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

959 ms

Page Rendered

820 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Therealdirt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

therealdirt.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,910 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

therealdirt.com

67 ms

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78 ms

pagenavi-css.css

23 ms

css

72 ms

style.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Therealdirt.com, 16% (14 requests) were made to Player.blubrry.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Player.blubrry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Therealdirt.com main page is 9.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 271.7 kB

  • Original 309.4 kB
  • After minification 306.4 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 271.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 110.7 kB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. The Real Dirt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 253.6 kB
  • After minification 253.6 kB
  • After compression 240.6 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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. Therealdirt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (25%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Real Dirt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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67 ms

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Accessibility Review

therealdirt.com accessibility score

67

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

therealdirt.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

therealdirt.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Therealdirt.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 Therealdirt.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

therealdirt.com

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