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kidshealth.com

Nemours KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health

Page Load Speed

584 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

320 ms

Page Rendered

225 ms

kidshealth.com screenshot

About Website

Visit kidshealth.com now to see the best up-to-date Kids Health content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kidshealth.com

KidsHealth is the #1 most-trusted source for physician-reviewed information and advice on children's health and parenting issues. For parents, kids, teens, and educators, in English and in Spanish.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kidshealth.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 545 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

kidshealth.org

39 ms

520560191.js

18 ms

reset.css;pv823655fe09f22b7b

68 ms

mobDesk.js;pvd9adaf3fa633c2f8

71 ms

khCommon.js;pv2369342249a03c63

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Kidshealth.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Statse.webtrendslive.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Cdn.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (84 ms) relates to the external source Kidshealth.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.9 kB (43%)

Content Size

458.5 kB

After Optimization

259.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Kidshealth.com main page is 458.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 260.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 8.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 181.8 kB
  • After minification 173.2 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. Kids Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 178.2 kB

  • Original 260.0 kB
  • After minification 251.8 kB
  • After compression 81.8 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 178.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Kidshealth.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kids Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kidshealth.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Kidshealth.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 Kids Health. 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: