Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

northstaranimalhospital.com

Veterinarian serving Palmer, Alaska | North Star Animal Hospital

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

565 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Welcome to northstaranimalhospital.com homepage info - get ready to check North Star Animal Hospital best content right away, or after learning these important things about northstaranimalhospital.com

North Star Animal Hospital and Pet Resort are your pet’s destinations for veterinary care, boarding, social play experiences and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstaranimalhospital.com page load time and found that the first response time was 565 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northstaranimalhospital.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northstaranimalhospital.com

565 ms

style.css

61 ms

style_custom.css

120 ms

38cedca6af410436c738987b0320a5d3.min.css

423 ms

smartslider.min.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Northstaranimalhospital.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.userway.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (663 ms) belongs to the original domain Northstaranimalhospital.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

943.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Northstaranimalhospital.com main page is 1.0 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. Javascripts take 490.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 97.2 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 79.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 245.2 kB
  • After minification 239.6 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. North Star Animal Hospital images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 490.0 kB
  • After minification 490.0 kB
  • After compression 487.9 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 197.7 kB
  • After minification 197.3 kB
  • After compression 196.5 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. Northstaranimalhospital.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (68%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Star Animal Hospital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northstaranimalhospital.com accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northstaranimalhospital.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

northstaranimalhospital.com SEO score

79

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

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 Northstaranimalhospital.com 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 Northstaranimalhospital.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 data is detected on the main page of North Star Animal Hospital. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: