Tools & Wizards About Us
waterbirth.net screenshot

Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

waterbirth.net

Andaluz Waterbirth Center | Portland Birth Center

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

waterbirth.net screenshot

About Website

Visit waterbirth.net now to see the best up-to-date Waterbirth content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about waterbirth.net

Birth center serving SW Portland since 1998 through skilled midwifery care. Specializing in low risk, out of hospital birth.

Visit waterbirth.net

Key Findings

We analyzed Waterbirth.net page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 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

waterbirth.net performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.waterbirth.net

2657 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

116 ms

css

47 ms

skin1.css

330 ms

style.css

326 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Waterbirth.net, 6% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterbirth.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterbirth.net main page is 3.3 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. 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 49.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Waterbirth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 152.9 kB

  • Original 252.0 kB
  • After minification 240.8 kB
  • After compression 99.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 152.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 177.0 kB

  • Original 215.5 kB
  • After minification 188.3 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Waterbirth.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (71%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterbirth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.waterbirth.net

www.waterbirth.net

2657 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

116 ms

css

css

47 ms

skin1.css

skin1.css

330 ms

style.css

style.css

326 ms

style.css

style.css

381 ms

skin.css

skin.css

329 ms

style.css

style.css

320 ms

wpgform.css

wpgform.css

317 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

391 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

537 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

416 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

408 ms

suffusion.js

suffusion.js

437 ms

smartfaq.min.js

smartfaq.min.js

451 ms

trigger_buttons.min.css

trigger_buttons.min.css

479 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.min.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.min.css

488 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

495 ms

nextgen_basic_thumbnails.min.css

nextgen_basic_thumbnails.min.css

511 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

533 ms

nggallery.css

nggallery.css

560 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

563 ms

baw-script.min.js

baw-script.min.js

573 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

32 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

108 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

579 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

607 ms

ajax.min.js

ajax.min.js

599 ms

common.min.js

common.min.js

625 ms

nextgen_basic_thumbnails.min.js

nextgen_basic_thumbnails.min.js

630 ms

lightbox_context.min.js

lightbox_context.min.js

645 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

653 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

669 ms

nextgen_fancybox_init.min.js

nextgen_fancybox_init.min.js

671 ms

e-201613.js

e-201613.js

26 ms

easy-table.css

easy-table.css

399 ms

ga.js

ga.js

40 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

212 ms

Body.png

Body.png

214 ms

HeaderTop.png

HeaderTop.png

233 ms

HeaderForeground.png

HeaderForeground.png

211 ms

Nav1.png

Nav1.png

211 ms

firstslider.jpg

firstslider.jpg

693 ms

secondslider.jpg

secondslider.jpg

619 ms

thirdslider.jpg

thirdslider.jpg

491 ms

fifthslider.png

fifthslider.png

1050 ms

FourthSlider.png

FourthSlider.png

990 ms

qhWZbs4t3hg5_Ntg3M4XLC3USBnSvpkopQaUR-2r7iU.ttf

qhWZbs4t3hg5_Ntg3M4XLC3USBnSvpkopQaUR-2r7iU.ttf

45 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

153 ms

hovercard.css

hovercard.css

32 ms

services.css

services.css

60 ms

g.gif

g.gif

20 ms

bg_direction_nav.png

bg_direction_nav.png

86 ms

Accessibility Review

waterbirth.net accessibility score

62

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.

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

ARIA IDs 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

Best Practices

waterbirth.net best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

waterbirth.net SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Waterbirth.net 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 Waterbirth.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

waterbirth.net

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Waterbirth. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: