Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thebirthdoula.co.uk

The Birth Doula - Specialist Pregnancy, Labour & Postnatal Support in North London and Hertfordshire

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

85 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thebirthdoula.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Birth Doula best content right away, or after learning these important things about thebirthdoula.co.uk

I provide comprehensive support to new families throughout pregnancy, labour, and beyond. Serving North London, Hertfordshire, and surrounding areas. I offer Antenatal Education, Hypnobirthing, Birth ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebirthdoula.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebirthdoula.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thebirthdoula.co.uk

181 ms

minified.js

49 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

47 ms

polyfill.min.js

47 ms

thunderbolt-commons.c1d8ed1c.bundle.min.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thebirthdoula.co.uk, 33% (14 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 30% (13 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (596 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 852.3 kB (63%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

504.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thebirthdoula.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 756.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 609.9 kB

  • Original 756.4 kB
  • After minification 754.6 kB
  • After compression 146.5 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 609.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 115.9 kB
  • After minification 102.3 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, The Birth Doula needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 228.8 kB

  • Original 484.8 kB
  • After minification 484.8 kB
  • After compression 255.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 228.8 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (37%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Birth Doula. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thebirthdoula.co.uk 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

thebirthdoula.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thebirthdoula.co.uk SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebirthdoula.co.uk 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 Thebirthdoula.co.uk 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 The Birth Doula. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: