Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

blog.medstarwashington.org

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

642 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.medstarwashington.org page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.medstarwashington.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.medstarwashington.org

82 ms

blog

462 ms

optimized-min.css

32 ms

optimized-min.css

59 ms

optimized-min.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.medstarwashington.org, 68% (58 requests) were made to Medstarhealth.org and 13% (11 requests) were made to Static.formstack.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (694 ms) relates to the external source Medstarhealth.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 754.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.medstarwashington.org main page is 5.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 164.6 kB

  • Original 193.9 kB
  • After minification 163.2 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 30.7 kB, which is 16% 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 164.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 184.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Blog Med Star Washington images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 355.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 355.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 49.6 kB

  • Original 215.8 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 166.2 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. Blog.medstarwashington.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (68%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Med Star Washington. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.medstarwashington.org accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

blog.medstarwashington.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.medstarwashington.org SEO score

64

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.medstarwashington.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blog.medstarwashington.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 Blog Med Star Washington. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: