Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

southwestdental.net

Cathedral City General Dentistry | Dentist Cathedral City | Cathedral CityDental Care

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

880 ms

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About Website

Welcome to southwestdental.net homepage info - get ready to check Southwest Dental best content right away, or after learning these important things about southwestdental.net

SouthWest Dental has been providing the best family dental services with friendly and comprehensive care in Cathedral City since 1990. Dentist Cathedral City, Dentist Rancho Mirage

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwestdental.net page load time and found that the first response time was 291 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

southwestdental.net performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.964

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwestdental.net

291 ms

bootstrap.min.css

141 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

132 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

140 ms

meanmenu.css

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Southwestdental.net, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (721 ms) belongs to the original domain Southwestdental.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Southwestdental.net main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 6.3 kB, which is 22% 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 23.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Southwest Dental images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 95.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. Southwestdental.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (59%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southwest 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southwestdental.net accessibility score

75

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

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

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

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

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

southwestdental.net 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

southwestdental.net 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

    ZX

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southwestdental.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Southwestdental.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Southwest Dental. 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: