Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

smilesinternational.com

Smiles International | Dentist Washington DC McLean VA

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

smilesinternational.com screenshot

About Website

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

Smiles International provides quality dental care, cosmetic dentistry, and dental implants to patients in Washington, DC and McLean, Alexandria, and Fairfax, VA. Call today to schedule your appointmen...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smilesinternational.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smilesinternational.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smilesinternational.com

32 ms

www.smilesinternational.com

187 ms

jquery.min.js

24 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

39 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Smilesinternational.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (649 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Smilesinternational.com main page is 4.6 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 4.7 kB, which is 12% 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 31.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.2 MB

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. Smiles International images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 246.9 kB
  • After minification 246.9 kB
  • After compression 238.6 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. Smilesinternational.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (36%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smiles International. 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.

Accessibility Review

smilesinternational.com accessibility score

54

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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>).

Best Practices

smilesinternational.com best practices score

58

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

smilesinternational.com SEO score

69

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 Smilesinternational.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 Smilesinternational.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 Smiles International. 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: