Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

babycenter.co.uk

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

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

584 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Babycenter.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2.5 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

babycenter.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,040 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

babycenter.co.uk

165 ms

babycenter.co.uk

249 ms

www.babycentre.co.uk

153 ms

gpt.js

76 ms

pub.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 273 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Babycenter.co.uk, 96% (263 requests) were made to Assets.babycenter.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (365 ms) relates to the external source Assets.babycenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (28%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Babycenter.co.uk main page is 8.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 468.1 kB

  • Original 558.6 kB
  • After minification 558.3 kB
  • After compression 90.5 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 468.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Baby Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.0 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (16%)

Requests Now

270

After Optimization

227

The browser has sent 270 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

babycenter.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

babycenter.co.uk 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.uk 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.uk 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.uk 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 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: