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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

medicalxpress.com

Medical Xpress - medical research advances and health news

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

744 ms

Page Rendered

524 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicalxpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicalxpress.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicalxpress.com

100 ms

style.min.1.36.css

97 ms

adsbygoogle.js

14 ms

gpt.js

60 ms

analytics.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Medicalxpress.com, 30% (11 requests) were made to Cdn.medicalxpress.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 285.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

643.8 kB

After Optimization

358.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medicalxpress.com main page is 643.8 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. Javascripts take 283.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 93.7 kB

  • Original 111.1 kB
  • After minification 82.5 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.6 kB, which is 26% 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 93.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 199.7 kB
  • After minification 195.2 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. Medical Xpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 149.0 kB

  • Original 283.7 kB
  • After minification 283.6 kB
  • After compression 134.7 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 149.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Medicalxpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (60%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medical Xpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

medicalxpress.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

medicalxpress.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

SEO Factors

medicalxpress.com SEO score

86

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