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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

dict.cc

dict.cc | German-English dictionary

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

514 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

About Website

Visit dict.cc now to see the best up-to-date Dict content for Germany and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dict.cc

dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dict.cc page load time and found that the first response time was 514 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dict.cc performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dict.cc

514 ms

js

54 ms

dict.css

495 ms

langpairs_1_1714658200.js.php

136 ms

dict.js.utf8.php

600 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Dict.cc, 76% (16 requests) were made to Www4.dict.cc and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (825 ms) relates to the external source M.dict.cc.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

211.2 kB

After Optimization

172.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dict.cc main page is 211.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 124.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. 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 26.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 124.4 kB
  • After minification 118.0 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. Dict images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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 5.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Dict.cc has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (75%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dict. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dict.cc accessibility score

88

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

Best Practices

dict.cc best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

dict.cc SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Dict.cc 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 Dict.cc 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 Dict. 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: