Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ecommons.med.harvard.edu

Services affected by the eCommons retirement | HMS IT

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecommons.med.harvard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.5 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

ecommons.med.harvard.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecommons.med.harvard.edu

142 ms

ecommons-outage-status

38 ms

services-affected-ecommons-retirement

29 ms

js

98 ms

google_tag.script.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ecommons.med.harvard.edu, 29% (12 requests) were made to It.hms.harvard.edu and 17% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (391 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

531.3 kB

After Optimization

413.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ecommons.med.harvard.edu main page is 531.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 61.9 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 72.7 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 61.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.5 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. ECommons Med Harvard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 319.0 kB
  • After minification 318.9 kB
  • After compression 296.6 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 129.8 kB
  • After minification 129.8 kB
  • After compression 95.9 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. Ecommons.med.harvard.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (59%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ECommons Med Harvard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ecommons.med.harvard.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ecommons.med.harvard.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ecommons.med.harvard.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ecommons.med.harvard.edu 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 Ecommons.med.harvard.edu 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 ECommons Med Harvard. 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: