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askthedoctor.com

Ask The Doctor ® | Health & wellness information Canadians can trust

Page Load Speed

49.9 sec in total

First Response

395 ms

Resources Loaded

29.4 sec

Page Rendered

20.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Askthedoctor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 395 ms and then it took 49.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

askthedoctor.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

askthedoctor.com

395 ms

www.askthedoctor.com

767 ms

044e1922de219f52b900e4d8f91d2969.css

691 ms

phq2gxy.js

1611 ms

E-v1.js

3530 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Askthedoctor.com, 27% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 18% (6 requests) were made to D1d356abgl1fup.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

577.0 kB

After Optimization

503.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Askthedoctor.com main page is 577.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 269.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 64.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 269.6 kB
  • After minification 260.7 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. Ask The Doctor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 317 B

  • Original 215.6 kB
  • After minification 215.6 kB
  • After compression 215.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (60%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ask The Doctor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

askthedoctor.com SEO score

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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 Askthedoctor.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 Askthedoctor.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 Ask The Doctor. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: