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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

medlineplus.gov

MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

Page Load Speed

201 ms in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

179 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

Visit medlineplus.gov now to see the best up-to-date Medline Plus content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medlineplus.gov

Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medic...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medlineplus.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 179 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medlineplus.gov performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.497

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medlineplus.gov

22 ms

medlineplus.gov

20 ms

common_new.css

3 ms

uswds_styles.css

7 ms

homepage_new.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Medlineplus.gov, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (96 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.8 kB (19%)

Content Size

281.4 kB

After Optimization

226.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medlineplus.gov main page is 281.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 165.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 6.6 kB, which is 24% 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 22.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 165.1 kB
  • After minification 136.2 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. Obviously, Medline Plus needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 251 B

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. Medlineplus.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (34%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medline Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

medlineplus.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

medlineplus.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medlineplus.gov SEO score

89

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

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