Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

discoveriesmagazine.org

Medical discoveries, research, and the history of healthcare at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles | Cedars-Sinai

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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The magazine of research and education at Cedars-Sinai, Discoveries captures the leading-edge work conducted by its expert physician scientists, shedding light on their invaluable contributions to hea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoveriesmagazine.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoveriesmagazine.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.224

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoveriesmagazine.org

1420 ms

www.discoveriesmagazine.org

139 ms

discoveries.html

415 ms

main.min.9c0f95f5.css

271 ms

spuds.js

352 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Discoveriesmagazine.org, 72% (39 requests) were made to Cedars-sinai.org and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Discoveriesmagazine.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 889.9 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

872.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Discoveriesmagazine.org main page is 1.8 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. 80% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 169.2 kB

  • Original 193.4 kB
  • After minification 170.9 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 22.4 kB, which is 12% 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 169.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 251.1 kB
  • After minification 247.4 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. Discoveries Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 717.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 576.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 717.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Discoveriesmagazine.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (24%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

39

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

Accessibility Review

discoveriesmagazine.org accessibility score

91

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

discoveriesmagazine.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

discoveriesmagazine.org SEO score

99

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

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 Discoveriesmagazine.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 Discoveriesmagazine.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 description is not detected on the main page of Discoveries Magazine. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: