Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

smilecastle.com

Pediatric Dentist in California, MD - Smile Castle Pediatric Dentistry

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

509 ms

About Website

Welcome to smilecastle.com homepage info - get ready to check Smile Castle best content right away, or after learning these important things about smilecastle.com

Smile Castle Pediatric Dentistry is a pediatric dentist office serving infants, children and teens in California, MD and the surrounding cities of Leonardtown, Lexington Park, and Hollywood, MD.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smilecastle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smilecastle.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smilecastle.com

233 ms

www.smilecastle.com

639 ms

global-v6.1.0.min.css

329 ms

local.css

281 ms

analytics.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Smilecastle.com, 32% (10 requests) were made to Srwd.sesamehub.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (639 ms) belongs to the original domain Smilecastle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

870.3 kB

After Optimization

718.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Smilecastle.com main page is 870.3 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. Images take 444.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 144.7 kB

  • Original 243.3 kB
  • After minification 238.2 kB
  • After compression 98.6 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 144.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 444.0 kB
  • After minification 442.0 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. Smile Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 77.6 kB
  • After minification 77.6 kB
  • After compression 76.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 105.5 kB
  • After compression 101.9 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. Smilecastle.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (39%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smile Castle. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smilecastle.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

smilecastle.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

smilecastle.com SEO score

100

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

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 Smilecastle.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 Smilecastle.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 description is not detected on the main page of Smile Castle. 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: