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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

smileschangelives.org

Donated Braces for Children and Teens | Smiles Change Lives

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

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About Website

Welcome to smileschangelives.org homepage info - get ready to check Smiles Change Lives best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about smileschangelives.org

Over 16,000 children across the US and Canada have received life-changing orthodontic treatment and donated braces through Smiles Change Lives since 1997. See if your child qualifies!

Visit smileschangelives.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Smileschangelives.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smileschangelives.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smileschangelives.org

1046 ms

reset.css

137 ms

style.css

142 ms

54a07ea1d7efe.css

140 ms

structure.css

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Smileschangelives.org, 8% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Smileschangelives.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.8 kB (55%)

Content Size

541.8 kB

After Optimization

246.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smileschangelives.org main page is 541.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 229.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 43.3 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. 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 35.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 112.8 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. Smiles Change Lives images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 229.8 kB
  • After minification 223.9 kB
  • After compression 102.3 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 127.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 147.1 kB
  • After minification 112.1 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. Smileschangelives.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smiles Change Lives. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smileschangelives.org

smileschangelives.org

1046 ms

reset.css

reset.css

137 ms

style.css

style.css

142 ms

54a07ea1d7efe.css

54a07ea1d7efe.css

140 ms

structure.css

structure.css

145 ms

theme-my-login.css

theme-my-login.css

137 ms

cn-user.min.css

cn-user.min.css

135 ms

chosen.min.css

chosen.min.css

196 ms

dark_style.css

dark_style.css

198 ms

frontend-render.css

frontend-render.css

260 ms

cmap.min.css

cmap.min.css

200 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

381 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

201 ms

inboundAnalytics.min.js

inboundAnalytics.min.js

378 ms

cn_rot13.js

cn_rot13.js

256 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

269 ms

load.sumome.com

load.sumome.com

316 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

265 ms

jquery.fitvids-max-width-modification.js

jquery.fitvids-max-width-modification.js

316 ms

init-fitvids.js

init-fitvids.js

316 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

317 ms

collapse.js

collapse.js

1760 ms

jscripts-ftr2-min.js

jscripts-ftr2-min.js

1760 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1759 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1615 ms

script.js

script.js

86 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

20 ms

scl-logo.gif

scl-logo.gif

72 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

73 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

71 ms

pinterest-resized-image-32x32.jpg

pinterest-resized-image-32x32.jpg

72 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

73 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

115 ms

instagram-icon-resized-image-32x32.png

instagram-icon-resized-image-32x32.png

128 ms

menu-wrapper-background.gif

menu-wrapper-background.gif

130 ms

Kid-Pics-Combined-3.jpg

Kid-Pics-Combined-3.jpg

250 ms

home-menu-bullets.gif

home-menu-bullets.gif

135 ms

goodsearch-goodshop.jpg

goodsearch-goodshop.jpg

131 ms

3M-official-logo-300x267.jpg

3M-official-logo-300x267.jpg

238 ms

cody-composite.jpg

cody-composite.jpg

251 ms

footer-boxes.gif

footer-boxes.gif

190 ms

donate-button.png

donate-button.png

189 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

29 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

style-mobile.css

style-mobile.css

64 ms

Accessibility Review

smileschangelives.org accessibility score

79

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

smileschangelives.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

smileschangelives.org SEO score

85

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 Smileschangelives.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 Smileschangelives.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

smileschangelives.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smiles Change Lives. 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: