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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

smilesfirst.com

Colorado's Dental Choice | Best Dentists | Espire Dental

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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

Colorado's Premier Dental Provider. At Espire Dental we tell our story through smiles & empower us all to be the best version of ourselves one smile at a time.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smilesfirst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smilesfirst.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smilesfirst.com

33 ms

espiredental.com

447 ms

plugin.js

30 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

bootstrap.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smilesfirst.com, 92% (98 requests) were made to Espiredental.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Espiredental.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Smilesfirst.com main page is 6.1 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. 75% 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. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 295.0 kB

  • Original 347.0 kB
  • After minification 325.5 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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. 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 295.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 68.7 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Smilesfirst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 306.2 kB
  • After minification 306.2 kB
  • After compression 303.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (14%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

86

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smilesfirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

smilesfirst.com accessibility score

57

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[role] values are not valid

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

smilesfirst.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

smilesfirst.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Smilesfirst.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 Smilesfirst.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 Smilesfirst. 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: