Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

waterpick.com

Waterpik™ Oral Health - Water Flossers, Electric Toothbrushes

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

waterpick.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterpick.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterpick.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterpick.com

162 ms

waterpik.com

76 ms

www.waterpik.com

50 ms

gtm.js

104 ms

otSDKStub.js

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Waterpick.com, 36% (26 requests) were made to Waterpik.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) relates to the external source Waterpik.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

786.6 kB

After Optimization

634.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Waterpick.com main page is 786.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 323.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 148.8 kB

  • Original 183.3 kB
  • After minification 175.1 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 148.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 197.5 kB
  • After minification 197.5 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. Water Pick images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 323.3 kB
  • After minification 323.3 kB
  • After compression 320.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 137 B

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 82.4 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. Waterpick.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (68%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Pick. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterpick.com accessibility score

85

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

waterpick.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waterpick.com SEO score

75

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

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 Waterpick.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 Waterpick.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 Water Pick. 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: