Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

castledental.com

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castledental.com page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 2.9 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

castledental.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castledental.com

204 ms

www.castledental.com

676 ms

block_edit.css

170 ms

css_ef10e1e23ff506ec931e66ab14a8fbe1.css

467 ms

home.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Castledental.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Mongoosemetrics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Castledental.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 553.4 kB (59%)

Content Size

935.6 kB

After Optimization

382.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Castledental.com main page is 935.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 543.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 34.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 252.4 kB
  • After minification 202.0 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. Obviously, Castle Dental needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.4 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 391.8 kB

  • Original 543.0 kB
  • After minification 475.0 kB
  • After compression 151.2 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 391.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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. Castledental.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (56%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Dental. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

castledental.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

castledental.com best practices score

85

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

castledental.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Castledental.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 Castledental.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 Castle Dental. 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: