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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

highlanddentalcentre.com

Welcome to Highland Dental Centre | Dentist in Pictou County

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

854 ms

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About Website

Visit highlanddentalcentre.com now to see the best up-to-date Highland Dental Centre content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about highlanddentalcentre.com

For over a decade, the dentists and staff at Highland Dental Centre have proudly served New Glasgow, Pictou County and the surrounding areas with quality dental care.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highlanddentalcentre.com page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highlanddentalcentre.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

214 ms

global.css

8 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

52 ms

style.css

47 ms

splide.min.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Highlanddentalcentre.com, 10% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to D2l4d0j7rmjb0n.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (824 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Highlanddentalcentre.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 973.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 107.9 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.2 kB, which is 30% 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 86.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 973.7 kB
  • After minification 966.9 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. Highland Dental Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 194.2 kB
  • After minification 194.2 kB
  • After compression 192.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 719 B

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Highlanddentalcentre.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (49%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Highland Dental Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

214 ms

global.css

global.css

8 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

52 ms

style.css

style.css

47 ms

splide.min.css

splide.min.css

94 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

87 ms

js

js

271 ms

foundationAccordion-min.js

foundationAccordion-min.js

79 ms

foundationAccordion-min.css

foundationAccordion-min.css

239 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

83 ms

scripts-min.js

scripts-min.js

75 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

238 ms

flexslider.min.js

flexslider.min.js

251 ms

splide.min.js

splide.min.js

271 ms

7a2e746270.js

7a2e746270.js

237 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

328 ms

invisalign-provider-logo-charcoal.svg

invisalign-provider-logo-charcoal.svg

350 ms

slider-image-22477-full-cropped.jpg

slider-image-22477-full-cropped.jpg

485 ms

dr-luke-austin.jpg

dr-luke-austin.jpg

499 ms

hellodent-doctor-placeholder.svg

hellodent-doctor-placeholder.svg

328 ms

dr-sarah-lepine.jpg

dr-sarah-lepine.jpg

824 ms

invisalign-bg-b.png

invisalign-bg-b.png

150 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

335 ms

image.svg

image.svg

328 ms

collect

collect

60 ms

7a2e746270.css

7a2e746270.css

108 ms

feature-b-1.jpg

feature-b-1.jpg

57 ms

invisalign-provider-logo-white.svg

invisalign-provider-logo-white.svg

50 ms

feature-b-2.jpg

feature-b-2.jpg

51 ms

feature-b-3.jpg

feature-b-3.jpg

48 ms

feature-b-4.jpg

feature-b-4.jpg

47 ms

home-main.jpg

home-main.jpg

52 ms

qualifier-b-portrait.jpg

qualifier-b-portrait.jpg

48 ms

featured-service.jpg

featured-service.jpg

104 ms

embed

embed

256 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

11 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

js

js

31 ms

search.js

search.js

3 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

6 ms

main.js

main.js

12 ms

Accessibility Review

highlanddentalcentre.com accessibility score

76

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

highlanddentalcentre.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

highlanddentalcentre.com SEO score

84

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

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 Highlanddentalcentre.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 Highlanddentalcentre.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

highlanddentalcentre.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Highland Dental Centre. 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: