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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

dirtcheapbuilder.com

Dirt Cheap Builder: Alternative Home-Building Resources to Build Your Own Home!

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

571 ms

Page Rendered

362 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dirtcheapbuilder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 933 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dirtcheapbuilder.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dirtcheapbuilder.com

237 ms

BKGRD.StoneWater.jpg

191 ms

DirtCheapBuilder.gif

163 ms

LivingHomes300H.jpg

226 ms

DCB.Banner.jpg

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Dirtcheapbuilder.com, 53% (9 requests) were made to Hopspress.com and 18% (3 requests) were made to Hollowtop.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (332 ms) relates to the external source Hopspress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

599.1 kB

After Optimization

549.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Dirtcheapbuilder.com main page is 599.1 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. Images take 576.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 18.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 576.5 kB
  • After minification 544.8 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. Dirt Cheap Builder images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dirt Cheap Builder. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

dirtcheapbuilder.com

dirtcheapbuilder.com

237 ms

BKGRD.StoneWater.jpg

BKGRD.StoneWater.jpg

191 ms

DirtCheapBuilder.gif

DirtCheapBuilder.gif

163 ms

LivingHomes300H.jpg

LivingHomes300H.jpg

226 ms

DCB.Banner.jpg

DCB.Banner.jpg

163 ms

SSMDVD.gif

SSMDVD.gif

222 ms

Masonry_Fireplace_DVD.gif

Masonry_Fireplace_DVD.gif

269 ms

Facebook_Button.96.jpg

Facebook_Button.96.jpg

271 ms

Tom_Elpel_Speaking.jpg

Tom_Elpel_Speaking.jpg

218 ms

BKGRND.Cracked_Mud.jpg

BKGRND.Cracked_Mud.jpg

196 ms

Living_Homes.jpg

Living_Homes.jpg

270 ms

Roadmap.108W.jpg

Roadmap.108W.jpg

266 ms

Participating.jpg

Participating.jpg

332 ms

Foraging_The_Mountain_West.200.jpg

Foraging_The_Mountain_West.200.jpg

220 ms

Botany.jpg

Botany.jpg

288 ms

Shanleyas_Quest140.jpg

Shanleyas_Quest140.jpg

218 ms

Portal_Icon.gif

Portal_Icon.gif

159 ms

Accessibility Review

dirtcheapbuilder.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dirtcheapbuilder.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

dirtcheapbuilder.com SEO score

91

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

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 Dirtcheapbuilder.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 Dirtcheapbuilder.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dirt Cheap Builder. 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: