Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

healthgrades.com

Healthgrades | Find a Doctor - Doctor Reviews - Online Doctor Appointments

Page Load Speed

65.8 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

35.8 sec

Page Rendered

29.8 sec

healthgrades.com screenshot

About Website

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Healthgrades is the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Healthgrades.com page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 65.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 30 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

healthgrades.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

healthgrades.com

238 ms

www.healthgrades.com

3628 ms

logo-white-full.svg

6957 ms

YLV2V_w60h80_v6260.jpg

6848 ms

XJCF9_w60h80_v13604.jpg

8763 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Healthgrades.com, 37% (18 requests) were made to D33ljpvc0tflz5.cloudfront.net and 10% (5 requests) were made to D1ffafozi03i4l.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (21.9 sec) relates to the external source D26ua9paks4zq.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

750.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Healthgrades.com main page is 1.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 871.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 327.6 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 871.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 305.8 kB
  • After minification 302.5 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. Healthgrades images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 90.3 kB

  • Original 161.3 kB
  • After minification 154.4 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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 90.3 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 141.6 kB

  • Original 190.7 kB
  • After minification 190.2 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. Healthgrades.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Healthgrades. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

healthgrades.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

healthgrades.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

healthgrades.com SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Healthgrades.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Healthgrades.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Healthgrades. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: