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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

epic-dental.com

Epic Dental | Pediatric, Orthodontic & General Dentist in Norwood, MA

Page Load Speed

662 ms in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

344 ms

Page Rendered

261 ms

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About Website

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Epic Dental, your Norwood general dentist, is a full service practice providing the best in orthodontic, pediatric, general, and cosmetic dental care. We proudly serve Norwood, Walpole, and surroundin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epic-dental.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 605 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epic-dental.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epic-dental.com

57 ms

www.epic-dental.com

47 ms

gtm.js

198 ms

jquery-ui.css

53 ms

slick.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Epic-dental.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epic-dental.com main page is 5.5 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 50.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 167.2 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Epic Dental images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 291.0 kB
  • After minification 290.8 kB
  • After compression 222.8 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 68.2 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. Epic-dental.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (63%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epic Dental. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

epic-dental.com

epic-dental.com

57 ms

www.epic-dental.com

www.epic-dental.com

47 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

198 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

53 ms

slick.css

slick.css

19 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

31 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

31 ms

datepicker-style.css

datepicker-style.css

31 ms

form.css

form.css

34 ms

style.css

style.css

40 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

64 ms

home-slider.css

home-slider.css

46 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

74 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

46 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

61 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

44 ms

custom.js

custom.js

46 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

49 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

49 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

50 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

51 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

51 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

51 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

52 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

53 ms

datepicker-legacy.min.js

datepicker-legacy.min.js

53 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

56 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

55 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

57 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

57 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

57 ms

swap.js

swap.js

63 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

62 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

64 ms

jquery.scrollify.js

jquery.scrollify.js

56 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

62 ms

home-slider.js

home-slider.js

60 ms

formrefresh.js

formrefresh.js

61 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

118 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

102 ms

Epic-White-Menu.png

Epic-White-Menu.png

11 ms

mobile-logo.png

mobile-logo.png

11 ms

menu-mobile.png

menu-mobile.png

11 ms

mob-close.png

mob-close.png

36 ms

sec-1.jpg

sec-1.jpg

37 ms

home-arrow.png

home-arrow.png

12 ms

about-us-text.png

about-us-text.png

13 ms

sec-2.jpg

sec-2.jpg

38 ms

pediatric-dentistry-text.png

pediatric-dentistry-text.png

13 ms

sec-3.jpg

sec-3.jpg

49 ms

orthodontics-text.png

orthodontics-text.png

36 ms

Epic-Homepage-Adult-NO-HOVER.png

Epic-Homepage-Adult-NO-HOVER.png

44 ms

adult-dentistry-text.png

adult-dentistry-text.png

38 ms

about-us-home-new.jpg

about-us-home-new.jpg

42 ms

pediatrics-home-new.jpg

pediatrics-home-new.jpg

40 ms

orthodontics-home-new.jpg

orthodontics-home-new.jpg

51 ms

Epic-Homepage-Adult-HOVER.png

Epic-Homepage-Adult-HOVER.png

53 ms

close-button.png

close-button.png

44 ms

35DC5B_0_0.woff

35DC5B_0_0.woff

45 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

38 ms

Accessibility Review

epic-dental.com accessibility score

70

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

epic-dental.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

epic-dental.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epic-dental.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 Epic-dental.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

epic-dental.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Epic Dental. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: