Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

drrathresearch.org

Dr Rath Research - Home - Dr. Rath Research Institute

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

203 ms

drrathresearch.org screenshot

About Website

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The Dr. Rath Research Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to research and education in natural health worldwide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Drrathresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

drrathresearch.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.337

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.drrathresearch.org

279 ms

simple-line-icons.min.css

50 ms

aafdd3f1148fd8507016d1e204d766d8_0.css

36 ms

css

29 ms

css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Drrathresearch.org, 12% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Drrathresearch.org main page is 3.3 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. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 49.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 113.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

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. Dr Rath Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 525.7 kB
  • After minification 525.7 kB
  • After compression 524.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 790 B

  • Original 54.2 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. Drrathresearch.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (48%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dr Rath Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

drrathresearch.org 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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

drrathresearch.org best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

drrathresearch.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Drrathresearch.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 Drrathresearch.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 Dr Rath Research. 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: