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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

childrensnational.org

Children’s National Hospital - Ranked Top 10 in the Nation | Children's National Hospital

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Childrensnational.org page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

childrensnational.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,500 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

childrensnational.org

52 ms

www.childrensnational.org

137 ms

all.min.css

46 ms

newrelic.js

122 ms

db0fd887744d7879.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Childrensnational.org, 25% (27 requests) were made to Edge.sitecorecloud.io and 4% (4 requests) were made to Adservice.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Edge.sitecorecloud.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 328.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Childrensnational.org main page is 7.8 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 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 228.4 kB

  • Original 273.4 kB
  • After minification 272.2 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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. 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 228.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Children S National images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 206.5 kB
  • After minification 206.5 kB
  • After compression 192.3 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 36 (35%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

67

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Children S National. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

childrensnational.org accessibility score

89

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

childrensnational.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

childrensnational.org SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Childrensnational.org 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 Childrensnational.org 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 Children S National. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: