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blog.smiledirectclub.com

Tips for Wearing Clear Aligners | SmileDirectClub Blog

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.smiledirectclub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.smiledirectclub.com

148 ms

287 ms

bootstrap.min.css

47 ms

sds-css--all.css

404 ms

sofia-black.woff

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.smiledirectclub.com, 50% (3 requests) were made to Smiledirectclub.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (404 ms) relates to the external source Sdc-static-site-assets.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.8 kB (85%)

Content Size

65.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.smiledirectclub.com main page is 65.9 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 59.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 3.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Blog.smiledirectclub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • CSS

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Smile Direct Club. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.smiledirectclub.com

blog.smiledirectclub.com

148 ms

287 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

47 ms

sds-css--all.css

sds-css--all.css

404 ms

sofia-black.woff

sofia-black.woff

200 ms

sofia.woff

sofia.woff

282 ms

SEO Factors

blog.smiledirectclub.com SEO score

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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 Blog.smiledirectclub.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 Blog.smiledirectclub.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 description is not detected on the main page of Blog Smile Direct Club. 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: