Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

dandydon.com

Dandy Don’s LSU Sporting News - Dishing out a daily dose of Tiger News since December 17, 1996

Page Load Speed

139.6 sec in total

First Response

369 ms

Resources Loaded

104.4 sec

Page Rendered

34.8 sec

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About Website

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Dishing out a daily dose of Tiger News since December 17, 1996

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dandydon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 369 ms and then it took 139.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dandydon.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.178

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dandydon.com

369 ms

www.dandydon.com

368 ms

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

218 ms

jquery.countdown.js

878 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

840 ms

Our browser made a total of 270 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Dandydon.com, 14% (38 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com and 10% (28 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.3 sec) relates to the external source Ssum-sec.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (48%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Dandydon.com main page is 3.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 78.6 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 14.1 kB, which is 15% 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 73.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Dandy Don images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 783.0 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 1.7 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Dandydon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 148 (63%)

Requests Now

236

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 236 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dandy Don. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dandydon.com accessibility score

81

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dandydon.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

dandydon.com SEO score

97

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 Dandydon.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 Dandydon.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 data is detected on the main page of Dandy Don. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: