Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

medical-reference.net

Medical-Reference

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

547 ms

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About Website

Visit medical-reference.net now to see the best up-to-date Medical Reference content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medical-reference.net

An informational blog covering medical/health related topics. Aims at debunking complex scientific data and presenting them in a clear, concise way.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medical-reference.net page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 1.8 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

medical-reference.net performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medical-reference.net

63 ms

www.medical-reference.net

117 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

3375562265-css_bundle_v2.css

115 ms

authorization.css

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Medical-reference.net, 13% (9 requests) were made to 4.bp.blogspot.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Image2.pubmatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) relates to the external source Peopleperhour.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 342.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Medical-reference.net main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 73.5 kB

  • Original 96.3 kB
  • After minification 95.6 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. 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 73.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Medical Reference images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 245.9 kB

  • Original 435.8 kB
  • After minification 435.5 kB
  • After compression 189.9 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 245.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. Medical-reference.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (34%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medical Reference. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medical-reference.net accessibility score

85

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

medical-reference.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

SEO Factors

medical-reference.net 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 Medical-reference.net 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 Medical-reference.net 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 Medical Reference. 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: