Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

ncdental.org

North Carolina Dental Society | American Dental Association

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

ncdental.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncdental.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncdental.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.692

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ncdental.org

1205 ms

js

63 ms

css2

42 ms

app.js

30 ms

svg4everybody.min.js

647 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Ncdental.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncdental.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 549.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncdental.org main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 46.7 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 11.4 kB, which is 20% 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 46.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 174.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Nc Dental needs image optimization as it can save up to 174.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 329.5 kB

  • Original 546.0 kB
  • After minification 546.0 kB
  • After compression 216.5 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 329.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Ncdental.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (26%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nc 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncdental.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

ncdental.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

ncdental.org SEO score

81

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 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 Ncdental.org 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 Ncdental.org 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 Nc Dental. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: