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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

merrelldentistry.com

Hendersonville, NC Dentist - Joshua C. Merrell, DDS, PLLC - General Dentist

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

543 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

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About Website

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Hendersonville dentist, Joshua C. Merrell, DDS, PLLC is a local, trusted dental practice offering general and cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, implants, veneers & other dental care. Call today to ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrelldentistry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 543 ms and then it took 2.3 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

merrelldentistry.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.merrelldentistry.com

543 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

22 ms

jquery-migrate-1.1.0.min.js

31 ms

site.css

61 ms

d-tect.js

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Merrelldentistry.com, 39% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 24% (9 requests) were made to Styles.prosites.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) relates to the external source Webstats.prosites.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 799.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

552.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merrelldentistry.com main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 500.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 19.8 kB, which is 18% 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 87.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 297.4 kB
  • After minification 281.1 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. Merrell Dentist Ry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 266.9 kB

  • Original 444.6 kB
  • After minification 444.6 kB
  • After compression 177.7 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 266.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 429.1 kB

  • Original 500.7 kB
  • After minification 500.7 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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. Merrelldentistry.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 429.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merrell Dentist Ry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.merrelldentistry.com

www.merrelldentistry.com

543 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

22 ms

jquery-migrate-1.1.0.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.1.0.min.js

31 ms

site.css

site.css

61 ms

d-tect.js

d-tect.js

163 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

227 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

301 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

433 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

386 ms

sbp5cgc.css

sbp5cgc.css

159 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

47 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

50 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

55 ms

8c950e2dcb.js

8c950e2dcb.js

86 ms

site.js

site.js

27 ms

p.css

p.css

31 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

591 ms

icon-tooth.png

icon-tooth.png

15 ms

icon-services.png

icon-services.png

19 ms

icon-app.png

icon-app.png

18 ms

icon-map.png

icon-map.png

19 ms

tooth-bg.png

tooth-bg.png

157 ms

location-img.jpg

location-img.jpg

159 ms

contact.jpg

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152 ms

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Accessibility Review

merrelldentistry.com accessibility score

80

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 have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

merrelldentistry.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merrelldentistry.com SEO score

92

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

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 Merrelldentistry.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 Merrelldentistry.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

merrelldentistry.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Merrell Dentist Ry. 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: