Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

nextgen.com

Award-winning EHR/EMR software| NextGen Healthcare

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

832 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nextgen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nextgen.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nextgen.com

170 ms

normalize.css

170 ms

layout.css

186 ms

jslibraries.css

181 ms

gridpak.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Nextgen.com, 35% (39 requests) were made to Bridge.nextgen.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 620.0 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Nextgen.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 104.8 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 99.2 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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 27.4 kB, which is 22% 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 104.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 986.7 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. Next Gen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 186.1 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 175.2 kB
  • After compression 84.0 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 186.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 264.1 kB

  • Original 293.1 kB
  • After minification 225.4 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Nextgen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 264.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (44%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Gen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nextgen.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

nextgen.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nextgen.com SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nextgen.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 Nextgen.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 Next Gen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: