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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

medicines.ie

Medicines.ie | Reliable & Accurate Online Medicines Information

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

676 ms

About Website

Welcome to medicines.ie homepage info - get ready to check Medicines best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about medicines.ie

Medicines.ie - Ireland's most popular source of accurate and reliable medicines information. Search medicines for SPCs, PILs and Educational Materials.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicines.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicines.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicines.ie

221 ms

medicines.ie

288 ms

www.medicines.ie

1306 ms

icon

40 ms

js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Medicines.ie, 41% (20 requests) were made to Backend-prod.medicines.ie and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Medicines.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 789.7 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

836.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Medicines.ie main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 951.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 767.3 kB

  • Original 951.4 kB
  • After minification 948.5 kB
  • After compression 184.1 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 767.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 605.8 kB
  • After minification 583.3 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. Medicines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 69.1 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 9 (21%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

medicines.ie accessibility score

98

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

Best Practices

medicines.ie best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

medicines.ie SEO score

92

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

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