Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

heartmath.org

HeartMath Institute

Page Load Speed

70.5 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

58 sec

Page Rendered

12.3 sec

heartmath.org screenshot

About Website

Visit heartmath.org now to see the best up-to-date Heart Math content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about heartmath.org

HeartMath Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and has developed reliable, scientifically validated tools since 1991 to help people reduce and avoid stress while experiencing increased peac...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heartmath.org page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 70.3 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 54 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

heartmath.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heartmath.org

203 ms

heartmath.org

811 ms

www.heartmath.org

1192 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1232 ms

font-awesome.min.css

771 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Heartmath.org, 25% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (26.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Heartmath.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Heartmath.org main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 212.8 kB

  • Original 262.4 kB
  • After minification 250.4 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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 212.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 70.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Heart Math images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 541.7 kB

  • Original 854.1 kB
  • After minification 850.4 kB
  • After compression 312.3 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 541.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 407.1 kB

  • Original 483.1 kB
  • After minification 425.7 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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. Heartmath.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (53%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heart Math. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heartmath.org accessibility score

93

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

heartmath.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

heartmath.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 Heartmath.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 Heartmath.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 data is detected on the main page of Heart Math. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: