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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

physicians.dukehealth.org

Duke Health Referring Physicians | For Medical Professionals

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

371 ms

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About Website

Visit physicians.dukehealth.org now to see the best up-to-date Physicians Duke Health content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about physicians.dukehealth.org

Duke Health helps physicians refer their patients to the right specialists and offers clinical education through Clinical Practice Today and web-based CME.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Physicians.dukehealth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

physicians.dukehealth.org performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

physicians.dukehealth.org

180 ms

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28 ms

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53 ms

alert.css

155 ms

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212 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Physicians.dukehealth.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Alertbar.oit.duke.edu and 3% (1 request) were made to Dukehealth.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) belongs to the original domain Physicians.dukehealth.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Physicians.dukehealth.org main page is 1.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 74.9 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 76.4 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 13.2 kB, which is 15% 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 74.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Physicians Duke Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 211 B

  • Original 180.9 kB
  • After minification 180.9 kB
  • After compression 180.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 298 B

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 176.9 kB
  • After compression 176.6 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. Physicians.dukehealth.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Physicians Duke 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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physicians.dukehealth.org

180 ms

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28 ms

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53 ms

alert.css

alert.css

155 ms

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212 ms

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183 ms

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290 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

81 ms

gtag.js

gtag.js

83 ms

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105 ms

duke-health-referring-physicians-logo.svg

duke-health-referring-physicians-logo.svg

29 ms

heartbeat.svg

heartbeat.svg

95 ms

stethoscope.svg

stethoscope.svg

28 ms

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31 ms

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144 ms

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107 ms

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120 ms

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96 ms

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95 ms

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96 ms

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97 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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191 ms

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81 ms

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83 ms

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122 ms

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150 ms

hp_cpt.jpg

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132 ms

duke-health-logo.svg

duke-health-logo.svg

128 ms

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168 ms

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318 ms

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453 ms

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437 ms

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372 ms

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148 ms

Accessibility Review

physicians.dukehealth.org accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Best Practices

physicians.dukehealth.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

physicians.dukehealth.org SEO score

86

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

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 Physicians.dukehealth.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 Physicians.dukehealth.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

physicians.dukehealth.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Physicians Duke Health. 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: