Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

healthier.com

Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

healthier.com screenshot

About Website

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

Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare pr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Healthier.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

healthier.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,810 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

healthier.com

181 ms

www.healthier.com

931 ms

healthier.css

56 ms

core.js

1652 ms

events.js

1650 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Healthier.com, 42% (38 requests) were made to Images.healthier.com and 16% (14 requests) were made to Eversave.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Images.healthier.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.2 kB (62%)

Content Size

645.1 kB

After Optimization

241.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Healthier.com main page is 645.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 472.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 38.6 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 16.3 kB, which is 30% 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 48.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 441 B

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.4 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. Health Ier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 322.2 kB

  • Original 472.5 kB
  • After minification 460.5 kB
  • After compression 150.4 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 322.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Healthier.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (71%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Health Ier. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

healthier.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

healthier.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

healthier.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Healthier.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Healthier.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Health Ier. 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: