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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

dictionary.eb.com

Merriam-Webster Unabridged

Page Load Speed

632 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

447 ms

Page Rendered

146 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dictionary.eb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 593 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dictionary.eb.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

failedlogin

39 ms

bootstrap.css

150 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

131 ms

mwunabridged.css

133 ms

responsive.css

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Dictionary.eb.com, 69% (11 requests) were made to Unabridged.merriam-webster.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (220 ms) relates to the external source Unabridged.merriam-webster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.3 kB (77%)

Content Size

606.8 kB

After Optimization

138.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dictionary.eb.com main page is 606.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 322.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 3.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 820 B

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 6.9 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, Dictionary Eb needs image optimization as it can save up to 820 B or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 229.7 kB

  • Original 322.0 kB
  • After minification 318.2 kB
  • After compression 92.3 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 229.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 234.7 kB

  • Original 272.8 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Dictionary.eb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 234.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (80%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dictionary Eb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

failedlogin

failedlogin

39 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

150 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

131 ms

mwunabridged.css

mwunabridged.css

133 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

139 ms

modernizr.custom.21364.js

modernizr.custom.21364.js

143 ms

mw-ref.css

mw-ref.css

143 ms

global-changes.css

global-changes.css

184 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

191 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.21.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.21.custom.min.js

220 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

189 ms

mwu-gateway-webapp.css

mwu-gateway-webapp.css

28 ms

mwu-gateway-webapp.js

mwu-gateway-webapp.js

55 ms

css

css

26 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

29 ms

print-definition.css

print-definition.css

28 ms

Accessibility Review

dictionary.eb.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

dictionary.eb.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

dictionary.eb.com SEO score

87

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 Dictionary.eb.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 Dictionary.eb.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

dictionary.eb.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dictionary Eb. 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: