Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

birthpsychology.com

Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Birth Psychology content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about birthpsychology.com

Association for prenatal and perinatal psychology and health has been promoting the importance of an early nurturing environment for babies

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birthpsychology.com page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birthpsychology.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.201

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birthpsychology.com

197 ms

birthpsychology.com

403 ms

bootstrap.css

430 ms

font-awesome.css

252 ms

flexslider.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (111 requests) were addressed to the original Birthpsychology.com, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Birthpsychology.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 758.0 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

387.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Birthpsychology.com main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 482.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 48.4 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 48.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 213.4 kB
  • After minification 188.9 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. Obviously, Birth Psychology needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 359.6 kB

  • Original 482.3 kB
  • After minification 345.9 kB
  • After compression 122.8 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 359.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 325.5 kB

  • Original 388.8 kB
  • After minification 317.1 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Birthpsychology.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 325.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (86%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birth Psychology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

birthpsychology.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

birthpsychology.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

birthpsychology.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 Birthpsychology.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 Birthpsychology.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 Birth Psychology. 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: