Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

icmr.nic.in

Indian Council of Medical Research | Government of India

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

338 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

56 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icmr.nic.in page load time and found that the first response time was 338 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

icmr.nic.in performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.527

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.icmr.gov.in

338 ms

popup.js

76 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

89 ms

style.css

98 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Icmr.nic.in and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Icmr.gov.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.9 kB (65%)

Content Size

553.5 kB

After Optimization

194.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Icmr.nic.in main page is 553.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 422.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 2.6 kB, which is 28% 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 6.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 273.4 kB

  • Original 422.9 kB
  • After minification 422.8 kB
  • After compression 149.5 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 273.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 79.3 kB

  • Original 121.3 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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. Icmr.nic.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (80%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Icmr. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

icmr.nic.in accessibility score

85

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

icmr.nic.in 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

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

icmr.nic.in SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Icmr.nic.in 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 Icmr.nic.in 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 Icmr. 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: