Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

kualzheimers.org

University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

kualzheimers.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ku Alzheimer S content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kualzheimers.org

The KU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (KU ADRC) at KU Medical Center is one of only 33 centers nationally designated by the National Institute on Aging. We bring access to direct care, research s...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kualzheimers.org page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kualzheimers.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kualzheimers.org

222 ms

kualzheimers.org

313 ms

alzheimers-disease-research-center.html

459 ms

css

39 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kualzheimers.org, 51% (27 requests) were made to Kumc.edu and 17% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Kumc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Kualzheimers.org main page is 2.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 64.7 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 22.2 kB, which is 30% 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 64.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Ku Alzheimer S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 166.7 kB
  • After minification 166.7 kB
  • After compression 164.1 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 84.3 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. Kualzheimers.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (53%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ku Alzheimer S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kualzheimers.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

kualzheimers.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kualzheimers.org SEO score

81

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 doesn't use 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 Kualzheimers.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 Kualzheimers.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 Ku Alzheimer S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: