Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

handctr.com

Hand, Wrist, Upper Extremity Surgeons Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut - Springfield MA - Ware MA - Enfield CT - The Hand Center of West...

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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About Website

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The Hand Center is a group of Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut hand surgeons devoted to the care of the Hand, Wrist, Fingers, Upper Extremity and Shoulder. Our physicians are at Baystate...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handctr.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handctr.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

handctr.com

90 ms

handctr.com

218 ms

contao.css

35 ms

mediabox.css

69 ms

462d3b9b9ac28322.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Handctr.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Intramed.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Glassappsource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

603.8 kB

After Optimization

519.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Handctr.com main page is 603.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 481.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. 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 34.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 481.4 kB
  • After minification 435.4 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. Hand CT R images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 267 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Handctr.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (42%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hand CT R. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

handctr.com accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

handctr.com best practices score

58

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

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

handctr.com SEO score

69

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

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 Handctr.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 Handctr.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 description is not detected on the main page of Hand CT R. 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: