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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

deardoctor.com

Dentist, Dentistry & Oral Health Guide | Dear Doctor Dental Magazine

Page Load Speed

808 ms in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

459 ms

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

Visit deardoctor.com now to see the best up-to-date Dear Doctor content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about deardoctor.com

The leading source for trustworthy information about dentistry and oral health. Learn about cosmetic dentistry - veneers, whitening, crowns and implants.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deardoctor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 708 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

deardoctor.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deardoctor.com

100 ms

www.deardoctor.com

147 ms

fonts.css

2 ms

ddwc-style.css

5 ms

validation.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Deardoctor.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (183 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shopify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

638.2 kB

After Optimization

544.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Deardoctor.com main page is 638.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 516.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.8 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 30.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 186 B

  • Original 516.5 kB
  • After minification 516.3 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. Dear Doctor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 29.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. Deardoctor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (17%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dear Doctor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

deardoctor.com

deardoctor.com

100 ms

www.deardoctor.com

www.deardoctor.com

147 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

2 ms

ddwc-style.css

ddwc-style.css

5 ms

validation.js

validation.js

13 ms

shadowbox.js

shadowbox.js

14 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

12 ms

all.js

all.js

39 ms

mobile-menu.js

mobile-menu.js

11 ms

patientwell-ad-1_300x250_14b2a6ed-83d3-4511-b0b1-1b5a1e99d0b6.jpg

patientwell-ad-1_300x250_14b2a6ed-83d3-4511-b0b1-1b5a1e99d0b6.jpg

140 ms

bg-tile.jpg

bg-tile.jpg

15 ms

new-logo.jpg

new-logo.jpg

13 ms

g-search.png

g-search.png

14 ms

dentists.jpg

dentists.jpg

13 ms

advertisement.gif

advertisement.gif

177 ms

cara-smile-makeover-banner.jpg

cara-smile-makeover-banner.jpg

35 ms

dental-injuries-guide.jpg

dental-injuries-guide.jpg

38 ms

howie-mandel.jpg

howie-mandel.jpg

38 ms

replacing-all-teeth-but-not-all-at-once.jpg

replacing-all-teeth-but-not-all-at-once.jpg

37 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

36 ms

what-everyone-should-know-about-tooth-decay.jpg

what-everyone-should-know-about-tooth-decay.jpg

36 ms

holistic-dentistry.jpg

holistic-dentistry.jpg

40 ms

when-permanent-teeth-become-loose.jpg

when-permanent-teeth-become-loose.jpg

40 ms

removing-teeth-for-orthodontic-treatment.jpg

removing-teeth-for-orthodontic-treatment.jpg

38 ms

when-a-tooth-is-knocked-out.jpg

when-a-tooth-is-knocked-out.jpg

40 ms

vaping-and-oral-health.jpg

vaping-and-oral-health.jpg

40 ms

dry-socket.jpg

dry-socket.jpg

39 ms

patientwell-ad-2_300x600_9c64e9f4-ca8b-4f37-945e-331aac35deee.jpg

patientwell-ad-2_300x600_9c64e9f4-ca8b-4f37-945e-331aac35deee.jpg

156 ms

patientwell-ad-2_300x250_bfc6c1c2-b910-4645-a4c1-92b4116cf1cc.jpg

patientwell-ad-2_300x250_bfc6c1c2-b910-4645-a4c1-92b4116cf1cc.jpg

183 ms

all.js

all.js

30 ms

34 ms

advertisement.gif

advertisement.gif

2 ms

Accessibility Review

deardoctor.com accessibility score

69

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

deardoctor.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

deardoctor.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Deardoctor.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 Deardoctor.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

deardoctor.com

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