Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

imr.org

North Carolina Institute for Medical Research - IMR.org | Honoring our Veterans through Innovative Medical Discovery.

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

932 ms

Page Rendered

413 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Imr.org page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 1.3 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

imr.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

imr.org

122 ms

imr.org

188 ms

8cee8fce214c3069d04f14c29a855e96.css

68 ms

2f41a11c37a2b1a689f5e106035ef379.css

82 ms

2f35c23d0dbe20f87463723acd4a5571.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Imr.org, 42% (22 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) belongs to the original domain Imr.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 289.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

712.7 kB

After Optimization

423.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Imr.org main page is 712.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 328.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 285.8 kB

  • Original 328.0 kB
  • After minification 327.8 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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. 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 285.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 124.9 kB
  • After minification 123.3 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. IMR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 238.6 kB
  • After minification 238.6 kB
  • After compression 236.6 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 60 B

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. Imr.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (78%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IMR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

imr.org accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

imr.org 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

imr.org SEO score

85

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

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 Imr.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 Imr.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 description is not detected on the main page of IMR. 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: