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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

babycenter.co

BabyCenter | The Most Accurate & Trustworthy Pregnancy & Parenting Information | BabyCenter

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

995 ms

Page Rendered

817 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Babycenter.co page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

babycenter.co performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

babycenter.co

134 ms

babycenter.co

274 ms

www.babycenter.com

60 ms

gpt.js

214 ms

pub.js

407 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Babycenter.co, 87% (69 requests) were made to Assets.babycenter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (517 ms) relates to the external source Assets.babycenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Babycenter.co main page is 3.2 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. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 694.8 kB

  • Original 818.3 kB
  • After minification 818.0 kB
  • After compression 123.5 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 694.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 208 B

  • Original 384.3 kB
  • After minification 384.1 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. Baby Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 726.4 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 1.2 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Babycenter.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (62%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baby Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

babycenter.co

babycenter.co

134 ms

babycenter.co

babycenter.co

274 ms

www.babycenter.com

www.babycenter.com

60 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

214 ms

pub.js

pub.js

407 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

50 ms

13346.js

13346.js

207 ms

z0WVjCBSEeGLoxIxOQVEwQ.min.js

z0WVjCBSEeGLoxIxOQVEwQ.min.js

102 ms

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57 ms

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95 ms

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179 ms

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176 ms

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176 ms

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177 ms

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196 ms

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198 ms

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197 ms

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198 ms

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199 ms

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201 ms

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200 ms

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199 ms

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395 ms

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394 ms

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393 ms

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517 ms

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461 ms

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462 ms

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461 ms

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395 ms

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462 ms

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397 ms

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399 ms

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400 ms

webpack-fa2fd20aa84c6422.js

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471 ms

framework-314c182fa7e2bf37.js

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462 ms

main-9fdc1b6a37a3dedd.js

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463 ms

_app-43cafe781c9e8c47.js

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474 ms

index-11b570e6b4376b47.js

index-11b570e6b4376b47.js

478 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

461 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

463 ms

BC_Logo_Horizontal-fit.svg

BC_Logo_Horizontal-fit.svg

450 ms

Monthly_users_resized.svg

Monthly_users_resized.svg

462 ms

Med_advisers_resized.svg

Med_advisers_resized.svg

298 ms

Expert_articles_resized.svg

Expert_articles_resized.svg

298 ms

BabyCenter-Trust_Wave-Mobile.svg.svg

BabyCenter-Trust_Wave-Mobile.svg.svg

299 ms

BabyCenter-Trust_Wave-Desktop.svg

BabyCenter-Trust_Wave-Desktop.svg

300 ms

hm_carousel_1stSlide.png

hm_carousel_1stSlide.png

301 ms

hm_carousel_2ndSlide_v2.png

hm_carousel_2ndSlide_v2.png

285 ms

hm_carousel_3rdSlide.png

hm_carousel_3rdSlide.png

293 ms

ic_hm-ttc-rejuv.svg

ic_hm-ttc-rejuv.svg

284 ms

ic_hm-pregnancy-rejuv.svg

ic_hm-pregnancy-rejuv.svg

281 ms

ic_hm-baby-rejuv.svg

ic_hm-baby-rejuv.svg

284 ms

ic_hm-toddler-rejuv.svg

ic_hm-toddler-rejuv.svg

284 ms

ic_hm-child-rejuv.svg

ic_hm-child-rejuv.svg

285 ms

MAB-Layan-Alrahmani-photo.jpg

MAB-Layan-Alrahmani-photo.jpg

288 ms

CherylMD2019-300px.jpg

CherylMD2019-300px.jpg

329 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

169 ms

chandani-dezure-profile-picture-sep-2022.jpg

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251 ms

dr-shawnte-james.jpg

dr-shawnte-james.jpg

92 ms

LizDonner.png

LizDonner.png

92 ms

expert-bio-zakiyah-williams.jpg

expert-bio-zakiyah-williams.jpg

93 ms

ic_content_videoPlay.svg

ic_content_videoPlay.svg

120 ms

ExpertWrittenDoctorApproved-border.svg

ExpertWrittenDoctorApproved-border.svg

93 ms

img_groupBlack.png

img_groupBlack.png

90 ms

BabyCenter-Guided-Pathway-Waves-Top-Desktop-alt.svg

BabyCenter-Guided-Pathway-Waves-Top-Desktop-alt.svg

87 ms

BabyCenter-Hamburger-Search-Menu-Desktop.svg

BabyCenter-Hamburger-Search-Menu-Desktop.svg

43 ms

BabyCenter-Down-Arrow-Enabled.svg

BabyCenter-Down-Arrow-Enabled.svg

86 ms

BabyCenter-App-Download-Subtout-Waves-Desktop.svg

BabyCenter-App-Download-Subtout-Waves-Desktop.svg

43 ms

ic_itemexpand-rejuv.svg

ic_itemexpand-rejuv.svg

45 ms

BC_tree_white.svg

BC_tree_white.svg

42 ms

BabyCenter-Waves-Bottom-Desktop.svg

BabyCenter-Waves-Bottom-Desktop.svg

45 ms

BabyCenter-Social-Facebook.svg

BabyCenter-Social-Facebook.svg

47 ms

BabyCenter-Social-Instagram-IG.svg

BabyCenter-Social-Instagram-IG.svg

43 ms

BabyCenter-Social-Pinterest.svg

BabyCenter-Social-Pinterest.svg

42 ms

BabyCenter-Social-Youtube.svg

BabyCenter-Social-Youtube.svg

42 ms

BabyCenter-Social-Twitter-X.svg

BabyCenter-Social-Twitter-X.svg

43 ms

Accessibility Review

babycenter.co accessibility score

85

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

babycenter.co 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

babycenter.co 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 Babycenter.co 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 Babycenter.co 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

babycenter.co

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Baby Center. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: