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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

methodisthealth.com

Houston Methodist: Leading Hospitals in Houston, Texas

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Methodisthealth.com page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

methodisthealth.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.275

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.houstonmethodist.org

370 ms

css

43 ms

commons

85 ms

commons

197 ms

home-page-layout

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Methodisthealth.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) relates to the external source Houstonmethodist.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 462.4 kB (78%)

Content Size

593.5 kB

After Optimization

131.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Methodisthealth.com main page is 593.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 411.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 153.4 kB

  • Original 180.5 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 49.2 kB, which is 27% 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 153.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Methodist Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 309.1 kB

  • Original 411.7 kB
  • After minification 411.7 kB
  • After compression 102.6 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 309.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (53%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Methodist Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

methodisthealth.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

methodisthealth.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

methodisthealth.com SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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