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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

birthstream.com

Birthstream Midwifery Service

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

643 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

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Birthstream is a practice of licensed midwives providing care to families in Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento Counties. We provide comprehensive prenatal, labor, birth, and postpartum care for mother and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birthstream.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 800 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birthstream.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,480 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birthstream.com

266 ms

style.css

156 ms

corner.jpg

304 ms

header.jpg

378 ms

nav_bg.jpg

306 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Birthstream.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (378 ms) belongs to the original domain Birthstream.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.1 kB (22%)

Content Size

86.7 kB

After Optimization

67.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birthstream.com main page is 86.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 82.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 1.7 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 82.1 kB
  • After minification 65.7 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, Birthstream needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.4 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 451 B

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. Birthstream.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birthstream. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

birthstream.com

birthstream.com

266 ms

style.css

style.css

156 ms

corner.jpg

corner.jpg

304 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

378 ms

nav_bg.jpg

nav_bg.jpg

306 ms

Accessibility Review

birthstream.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

birthstream.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

birthstream.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Birthstream.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Birthstream.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

birthstream.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Birthstream. 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: