Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

therapist.com

Find a licensed therapist for in-person or online sessions | therapist.com

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Therapist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1.9 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

therapist.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,910 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

therapist.com

90 ms

www.therapist.com

727 ms

structure.css

71 ms

content_custom.css

58 ms

noimage.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Therapist.com, 8% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (727 ms) belongs to the original domain Therapist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 361.7 kB (67%)

Content Size

542.8 kB

After Optimization

181.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Therapist.com main page is 542.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 383.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 5.4 kB, which is 11% 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 38.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 616 B

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 23.9 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. Therapist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 249.3 kB

  • Original 383.2 kB
  • After minification 368.8 kB
  • After compression 134.0 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 249.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 65.5 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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. Therapist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (43%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Therapist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

therapist.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

therapist.com 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

therapist.com SEO score

86

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 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 Therapist.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 Therapist.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 Therapist. 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: