A modern refresh for Arcora Foundation’s SmileMobile van, a 3-chair mobile dental office that brings oral health services to babies, children, youth, pregnant/postpartum people and adults in Washington State who have limited options for dental care. The new site features a mobile-friendly event calendar, as well as translation tool for under-served communities.
Mobile performance was significantly improved by reducing web server requests 63% and overall page size 77%.
Accessibility improvements included skip-to-content links, keyboard-navigable navigation, semantic HTML, and a higher contrast color palette.
Scope of Work
Accessibility Remediation
Performance Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Visual Design & Layout
Performance Analysis
| Performance Metric | Old Website |
New Website |
| Google Lighthouse: Accessibility | 95/100 | 98/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Best Practices | 92/100 | 92/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Mobile Speed | 31/100 | 84/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Desktop Speed | 81/100 | 95/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Search Engine Optimization | 80/100 | 91/100 |
| WebPageTest Speed Index | 7.309 | 2.879 |
| Total Homepage File Size | 2.2 Mb ( 1.36 Mb Images + 574 Kb Scripts + 156 Kb CSS + Kb HTML) | 509 Kb (153 Kb Images + 128 Kb Scripts + 77 Kb CSS + 150 Kb Fonts + 12 Kb HTML) |
| Total Web Server Requests | 84 (25 Images + 32 Scripts + 16 CSS + 11 Other + 1 HTML) | 31 (6 Images + 11 Scripts + 11 CSS + 1 Font + 2 HTML) |
| Estimated Mobile Homepage Load Time | ~7.3 seconds | ~2.9 seconds |
WebPage Test Speed Index: median = ~3.591; top 10% = <1.388
In 2022, the average page size = ~2.4 Mb and median page size = ~2.1 Mb.
Database-driven websites, like WordPress, are more performance optimized when server requests are < 40 – 60.
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