Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

balladhealth.org

Homepage | Ballad Health

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

549 ms

Page Rendered

622 ms

balladhealth.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to balladhealth.org homepage info - get ready to check Ballad Health best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about balladhealth.org

Ballad Health is a nationally-recognized, locally-focused healthcare system providing hospital care, urgent care clinics, primary care, orthopedics and surgery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balladhealth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.2 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

balladhealth.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balladhealth.org

38 ms

balladhealth.org

15 ms

www.balladhealth.org

146 ms

align.module.css

11 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (100 requests) were addressed to the original Balladhealth.org, 2% (2 requests) were made to Static.legitscript.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (195 ms) relates to the external source Api.airbud.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

926.1 kB

After Optimization

867.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Balladhealth.org main page is 926.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 541.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 46.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 250.3 kB
  • After minification 243.2 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. Ballad Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 435 B

  • Original 541.6 kB
  • After minification 541.6 kB
  • After compression 541.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Balladhealth.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (82%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballad 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 56 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

balladhealth.org accessibility score

90

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

balladhealth.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

balladhealth.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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