Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

healthstream.com

HealthStream - Healthcare Workforce Solutions

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Healthstream.com page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

healthstream.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.healthstream.com

225 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

base

53 ms

css

238 ms

lazyload.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Healthstream.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Hs.healthstream.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (494 ms) belongs to the original domain Healthstream.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Healthstream.com main page is 3.1 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. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 294.2 kB

  • Original 359.9 kB
  • After minification 246.6 kB
  • After compression 65.7 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 113.4 kB, which is 32% 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 294.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 298.5 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Obviously, Health Stream needs image optimization as it can save up to 298.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 193.9 kB

  • Original 387.3 kB
  • After minification 374.4 kB
  • After compression 193.4 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 193.9 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 178.2 kB
  • After minification 177.3 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. Healthstream.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (34%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Health Stream. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

healthstream.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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

healthstream.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

healthstream.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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