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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

meritdental.com

Dental Care | Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana | Merit Dental

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

Visit meritdental.com now to see the best up-to-date Merit Dental content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about meritdental.com

Merit Dental offers a wide range of dental services for families and patients of all ages, including exams, cosmetic and restorative dentistry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritdental.com page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2 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

meritdental.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritdental.com

197 ms

meritdental.com

1141 ms

js

131 ms

gtm.js

194 ms

style.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Meritdental.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Meritdental.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

858.9 kB

After Optimization

787.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meritdental.com main page is 858.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 572.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 47.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 572.6 kB
  • After minification 553.1 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. Merit Dental images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 209.7 kB
  • After minification 209.7 kB
  • After compression 208.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.9 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. Meritdental.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (60%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

meritdental.com

meritdental.com

197 ms

meritdental.com

meritdental.com

1141 ms

js

js

131 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

194 ms

style.css

style.css

52 ms

css

css

85 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

100 ms

utm_form-1.0.0.min.js

utm_form-1.0.0.min.js

80 ms

js

js

126 ms

advps-style.css

advps-style.css

123 ms

simple-banner.css

simple-banner.css

128 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

126 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

174 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

127 ms

advps.frnt.script.js

advps.frnt.script.js

129 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

173 ms

simple-banner.js

simple-banner.js

188 ms

home.css

home.css

206 ms

script.js

script.js

204 ms

clinicByState.js

clinicByState.js

204 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

209 ms

public.css

public.css

210 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

272 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

275 ms

api.js

api.js

119 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

276 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

275 ms

bkhamvs6lk

bkhamvs6lk

164 ms

cancel-icon.jpg

cancel-icon.jpg

152 ms

logo.png

logo.png

151 ms

loc-icon.jpg

loc-icon.jpg

151 ms

Safety-Homepage-320px.jpg

Safety-Homepage-320px.jpg

152 ms

Safety-Homepage-400px.jpg

Safety-Homepage-400px.jpg

188 ms

Safety-Homepage-768px.jpg

Safety-Homepage-768px.jpg

211 ms

Safety-Homepage-1000px.jpg

Safety-Homepage-1000px.jpg

258 ms

my_loc.png

my_loc.png

187 ms

drop-down-orange.png

drop-down-orange.png

187 ms

search-submit.jpg

search-submit.jpg

186 ms

request_appointment_icon.png

request_appointment_icon.png

234 ms

new_patient_icon.png

new_patient_icon.png

235 ms

locations_icon.png

locations_icon.png

234 ms

patient_forms_logo.png

patient_forms_logo.png

235 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

247 ms

facebook-white.png

facebook-white.png

259 ms

privacy.svg

privacy.svg

206 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWCWtFCc.woff

134 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHw3q5d0.woff

134 ms

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160 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw3q5d0.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw3q5d0.woff

159 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

37 ms

widget.js

widget.js

77 ms

widget_app_base_1707998198539.js

widget_app_base_1707998198539.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

meritdental.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

meritdental.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

meritdental.com SEO score

77

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

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 doesn't use 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 Meritdental.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 Meritdental.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 Merit Dental. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: