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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

betterhelp.com

BetterHelp | Professional Therapy With A Licensed Therapist

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

766 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betterhelp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betterhelp.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

betterhelp.com

193 ms

www.betterhelp.com

271 ms

570101449.js

244 ms

jquery.min.js

147 ms

flexslider.css

158 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Betterhelp.com, 40% (29 requests) were made to D2ow4fmlaf3fdw.cloudfront.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Plugin.reactful.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (741 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 495.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

592.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Betterhelp.com 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 385.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 6.6 kB, which is 14% 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 35.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 385.6 kB
  • After minification 382.7 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. Better Help images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 215.5 kB

  • Original 368.6 kB
  • After minification 368.6 kB
  • After compression 153.1 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 215.5 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 240.9 kB

  • Original 286.4 kB
  • After minification 283.8 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. Betterhelp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (59%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Better Help. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

betterhelp.com

betterhelp.com

193 ms

www.betterhelp.com

www.betterhelp.com

271 ms

570101449.js

570101449.js

244 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

147 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

158 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

159 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

129 ms

font-awesome-animation.min.css

font-awesome-animation.min.css

156 ms

betterhelp.1135.min.css

betterhelp.1135.min.css

153 ms

css

css

146 ms

bootstrap-switch.css

bootstrap-switch.css

157 ms

css

css

159 ms

loader.ijs

loader.ijs

227 ms

betterhelp.min.1135.js

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149 ms

loggedout.min.1135.js

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157 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

157 ms

3976

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128 ms

event

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126 ms

mixpanel-2.2.min.js

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339 ms

fbds.js

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415 ms

fbevents.js

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540 ms

main.min.ijs

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422 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

741 ms

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25 ms

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201 ms

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41 ms

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35 ms

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154 ms

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157 ms

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150 ms

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150 ms

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148 ms

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150 ms

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157 ms

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258 ms

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94 ms

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174 ms

ytc.js

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293 ms

spx

spx

478 ms

ga.js

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321 ms

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39 ms

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jquery.min.js

142 ms

oridomi.js

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245 ms

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233 ms

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58 ms

generic

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33 ms

st

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222 ms

cs

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18 ms

json2.min.js

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89 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

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268 ms

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218 ms

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37 ms

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17 ms

Accessibility Review

betterhelp.com 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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

betterhelp.com 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

betterhelp.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Betterhelp.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Betterhelp.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

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