Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

themidwifeplan.com

The Midwife Plan | Southern Cross Insurance Solutions | World Insurance

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

themidwifeplan.com screenshot

About Website

Visit themidwifeplan.com now to see the best up-to-date The Midwife Plan content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about themidwifeplan.com

The Midwife Plan, founded by Ann Geisler, solves your need for coverage. Find out how you can become insured as a midwife or a birth center. The Midwife Plan is now a World company.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themidwifeplan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themidwifeplan.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themidwifeplan.com

1134 ms

styles.css

83 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

230 ms

woocommerce.css

233 ms

slick-theme.css

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Themidwifeplan.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Themidwifeplan.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 418.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Themidwifeplan.com main page is 4.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 185.7 kB

  • Original 220.3 kB
  • After minification 185.7 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 34.6 kB, which is 16% 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 185.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 204.3 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. The Midwife Plan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 425.7 kB
  • After minification 425.7 kB
  • After compression 415.1 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 229.7 kB
  • After minification 229.7 kB
  • After compression 211.8 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. Themidwifeplan.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (63%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Midwife Plan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

themidwifeplan.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

themidwifeplan.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

themidwifeplan.com SEO score

77

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 Themidwifeplan.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 Themidwifeplan.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Midwife Plan. 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: