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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

alkermes.com

Alkermes – A Global Biopharmaceutical Company

Page Load Speed

951 ms in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

684 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

alkermes.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Alkermes content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about alkermes.com

Alkermes plc is a fully integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines in the field of neuroscience.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alkermes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 877 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alkermes.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.746

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alkermes.com

74 ms

www.alkermes.com

121 ms

reset.css

38 ms

typography.css

52 ms

forms.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Alkermes.com, 14% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) belongs to the original domain Alkermes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alkermes.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 45.7 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 9.4 kB, which is 21% 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 37.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Alkermes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 191.5 kB

  • Original 354.6 kB
  • After minification 342.7 kB
  • After compression 163.1 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 191.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Alkermes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (60%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alkermes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alkermes.com

alkermes.com

74 ms

www.alkermes.com

www.alkermes.com

121 ms

reset.css

reset.css

38 ms

typography.css

typography.css

52 ms

forms.css

forms.css

54 ms

screen.css

screen.css

70 ms

home.css

home.css

57 ms

custom.css

custom.css

60 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

68 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

82 ms

head.js

head.js

75 ms

ydj3axs.js

ydj3axs.js

147 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

98 ms

nav.js

nav.js

28 ms

site.js

site.js

31 ms

jquery.jscrollpane.min.js

jquery.jscrollpane.min.js

34 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

79 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

77 ms

custom.js

custom.js

78 ms

cse.js

cse.js

18 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

75 ms

alks_qi.gif

alks_qi.gif

23 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

71 ms

banner-tribg.png

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266 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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266 ms

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289 ms

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266 ms

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290 ms

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105 ms

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131 ms

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201 ms

tile1_investors.png

tile1_investors.png

266 ms

tile2_pipeline.png

tile2_pipeline.png

329 ms

tile3_working.png

tile3_working.png

291 ms

btn_Ok.jpg

btn_Ok.jpg

287 ms

btn_Back.jpg

btn_Back.jpg

286 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

329 ms

cse.js

cse.js

82 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

collect

collect

62 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

24 ms

jsapi

jsapi

41 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

collect

collect

89 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

56 ms

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default.css

60 ms

default+en.I.js

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72 ms

default.css

default.css

28 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

58 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

24 ms

small-logo.png

small-logo.png

24 ms

search_box_icon.png

search_box_icon.png

24 ms

clear.png

clear.png

22 ms

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print.css

print.css

27 ms

Accessibility Review

alkermes.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alkermes.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

alkermes.com SEO score

83

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 doesn't use 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 Alkermes.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 Alkermes.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

alkermes.com

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