Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

herrickdental.com

St. Louis, MO Dentist - Jason M. Herrick, DDS - General Dentist

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herrickdental.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herrickdental.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herrickdental.com

180 ms

www.herrickdental.com

242 ms

2c127669c31c9f3e4dc845dc36abe8f9.opt-min.cr.css

136 ms

logo.jpg.webp

65 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Herrickdental.com, 26% (6 requests) were made to Cdcssl.ibsrv.net and 9% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) belongs to the original domain Herrickdental.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

431.2 kB

After Optimization

275.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Herrickdental.com main page is 431.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 329.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 45.9 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.5 kB, which is 21% 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 37.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 19.9 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, Herrick Dental needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 110.8 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 329.4 kB
  • After compression 218.6 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 110.8 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 263 B

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Herrickdental.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herrick 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

herrickdental.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

herrickdental.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

herrickdental.com SEO score

70

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

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