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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ratemydentist.org

Find a Dentist - Dental Search Ratings and Reviews - Rate My Dentist

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

474 ms

Page Rendered

484 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Rate My Dentist content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ratemydentist.org

Rate My Dentist is a dentist search website. We help you find a dentist or dental practice in your local area. Rate and review your local dentists, read other reviews and ratings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ratemydentist.org page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 958 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ratemydentist.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ratemydentist.org

180 ms

ww7.ratemydentist.org

90 ms

bpNoDcbpY.js

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ratemydentist.org, 67% (2 requests) were made to Ww7.ratemydentist.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (180 ms) belongs to the original domain Ratemydentist.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

629.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ratemydentist.org main page is 1.1 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 625.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 338 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 809 B

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 338 B or 29% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 321.6 kB
  • After minification 316.3 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. Rate My Dentist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 340.0 kB

  • Original 625.5 kB
  • After minification 577.1 kB
  • After compression 285.5 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 340.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 156.0 kB

  • Original 183.2 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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. Ratemydentist.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 156.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rate My Dentist. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ratemydentist.org accessibility score

86

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

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

Best Practices

ratemydentist.org 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

SEO Factors

ratemydentist.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 doesn't use 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 Ratemydentist.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 Ratemydentist.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rate My Dentist. 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: