Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

drekvall.com

Merlin Ekvall, DDS, MS Orthodontics | Orthodontist Omak WA

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

drekvall.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Drekvall.com page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 2.4 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

drekvall.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.238

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

drekvall.com

249 ms

www.drekvall.com

480 ms

global-v6.1.0.min.css

291 ms

local.css

106 ms

aggregate.js

273 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Drekvall.com, 21% (8 requests) were made to Srwd.sesamehub.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (829 ms) belongs to the original domain Drekvall.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Drekvall.com main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 23.4 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 5.4 kB, which is 19% 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 21.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 123.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 944.1 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. Obviously, Dr Ekvall needs image optimization as it can save up to 123.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 903 B

  • Original 58.8 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 98.4 kB
  • After compression 95.9 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. Drekvall.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (10%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dr Ekvall. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

drekvall.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

drekvall.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

drekvall.com SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Drekvall.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 Drekvall.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 Dr Ekvall. 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: