Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

news.health.com

Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

637 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.health.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.health.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.health.com

41 ms

style.css

138 ms

152 ms

194 ms

jquery-ui_1_8_13_min.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.health.com, 7% (12 requests) were made to Img2.timeinc.net and 6% (11 requests) were made to Img5.timeinc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of News.health.com main page is 3.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 170.6 kB

  • Original 228.2 kB
  • After minification 221.4 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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 170.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 100.7 kB

  • Original 454.3 kB
  • After minification 353.6 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, News Health needs image optimization as it can save up to 100.7 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 701.5 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 1.4 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 140.6 kB

  • Original 176.1 kB
  • After minification 165.1 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. News.health.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 140.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 114 (66%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.health.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

news.health.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news.health.com SEO score

93

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

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 News.health.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 News.health.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 data is detected on the main page of News Health. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: