Access emc.medicines.org.uk. Home - electronic medicines compendium (emc)

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

emc.medicines.org.uk

190 ms

1582 ms

css

163 ms

desktop

401 ms

lmuTabbed.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Emc.medicines.org.uk, 76% (22 requests) were made to Medicines.org.uk and 10% (3 requests) were made to Widget.uservoice.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Medicines.org.uk.

Content Size

69.3 kB

After Optimization

39.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Emc.medicines.org.uk main page is 69.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 30.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

Original 30.0 kB
After minification 27.6 kB
After compression 6.3 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 23.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

Original 18.9 kB
After minification 14.6 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. Obviously, Emc Medicines needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

Original 20.4 kB
After minification 20.4 kB
After compression 18.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emc Medicines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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/).

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 Emc.medicines.org.uk 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 Emc.medicines.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8;. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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