Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

webster-dictionary.net

Webster Dictionary

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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About Website

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1913 online Webster's Dictionary. Includes dictionary browser, morphological search, thesaurus, related words, and dictionary browser. Provides usage examples

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webster-dictionary.net page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webster-dictionary.net performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

webster-dictionary.net

356 ms

plusone.js

93 ms

adx.htm

79 ms

track.ashx

146 ms

like.php

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Webster-dictionary.net, 15% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.9 kB (61%)

Content Size

605.7 kB

After Optimization

238.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Webster-dictionary.net main page is 605.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 561.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 17.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 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. Webster Dictionary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 349.9 kB

  • Original 561.6 kB
  • After minification 561.6 kB
  • After compression 211.8 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 349.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (57%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Webster Dictionary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

webster-dictionary.net accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

webster-dictionary.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

webster-dictionary.net SEO score

67

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-LATIN-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Webster-dictionary.net 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 Webster-dictionary.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-latin-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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