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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ahrq.gov

Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

642 ms

Page Rendered

587 ms

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About Website

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AHRQ advances excellence in healthcare by producing evidence to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ahrq.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ahrq.gov performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.735

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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23 ms

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32 ms

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32 ms

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21 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Ahrq.gov, 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (235 ms) belongs to the original domain Ahrq.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ahrq.gov main page is 3.2 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. 75% 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 13.5 kB, which is 15% 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 73.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 95.9 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Ahrq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 283.2 kB
  • After minification 283.2 kB
  • After compression 251.0 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 32.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 690 B

  • Original 94.4 kB
  • After minification 94.4 kB
  • After compression 93.7 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. Ahrq.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (35%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ahrq. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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32 ms

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32 ms

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9 ms

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Accessibility Review

ahrq.gov accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

ahrq.gov best practices score

58

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

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

ahrq.gov SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ahrq.gov 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 Ahrq.gov 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

ahrq.gov

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