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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

gerson.com

Gerson Institute - Supporting Health and Healing with the Gerson Therapy : Gerson Institute

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

About Website

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The Gerson Institute was founded in 1978 to spread awareness of the Gerson Therapy, serving as a global hub of information on the treatment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gerson.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gerson.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gerson.com

33 ms

gerson.org

27 ms

gerson.org

237 ms

autoptimize_9397c2ece9a59963d83a0d9f2d3395b2.css

71 ms

css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gerson.com, 49% (25 requests) were made to Gerson.org and 18% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gerson.com main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 653.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 141.9 kB

  • Original 175.0 kB
  • After minification 175.0 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 141.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 138.4 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. Gerson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 653.6 kB
  • After minification 653.6 kB
  • After compression 652.3 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 222.0 kB
  • After minification 222.0 kB
  • After compression 222.0 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. Gerson.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (67%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gerson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gerson.com accessibility score

85

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

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

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

gerson.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

gerson.com SEO score

67

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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