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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

americandialect.org

American Dialect Society - An academic not-for-profit organization that encourages the study of any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found...

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

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An academic not-for-profit organization that encourages the study of any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlan...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americandialect.org page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americandialect.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americandialect.org

248 ms

www.americandialect.org

570 ms

style.css

104 ms

tablepress-combined.min.css

200 ms

jetpack.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Americandialect.org, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Americandialect.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.5 kB (66%)

Content Size

338.4 kB

After Optimization

115.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americandialect.org main page is 338.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 200.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 20.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 20.4 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. Obviously, American Dialect needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 127.0 kB

  • Original 200.2 kB
  • After minification 200.1 kB
  • After compression 73.1 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 127.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 79.6 kB
  • After minification 75.4 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Americandialect.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Dialect. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americandialect.org

americandialect.org

248 ms

www.americandialect.org

www.americandialect.org

570 ms

style.css

style.css

104 ms

tablepress-combined.min.css

tablepress-combined.min.css

200 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

192 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

279 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

190 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

203 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

204 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

4 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

344 ms

e-201611.js

e-201611.js

4 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

226 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

46 ms

american-dialect-society-logo.png

american-dialect-society-logo.png

129 ms

email-button-blue.png

email-button-blue.png

128 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

126 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

128 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

128 ms

rss.png

rss.png

128 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

7 ms

Accessibility Review

americandialect.org accessibility score

79

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

americandialect.org 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

SEO Factors

americandialect.org SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Americandialect.org 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 Americandialect.org 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

americandialect.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of American Dialect. 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: