Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

mcatquestion.com

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcatquestion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 1.5 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

mcatquestion.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcatquestion.com

180 ms

www.mcatquestion.com

297 ms

jquery.min.js

72 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

72 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Mcatquestion.com, 13% (7 requests) were made to Leesimonov.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.3 kB (64%)

Content Size

423.4 kB

After Optimization

153.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Mcatquestion.com main page is 423.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 164.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 27.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 72.8 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. Obviously, MCAT Question needs image optimization as it can save up to 60.6 kB or 45% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 105.8 kB

  • Original 164.7 kB
  • After minification 141.2 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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 105.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 80.1 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Mcatquestion.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (47%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MCAT Question. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mcatquestion.com accessibility score

73

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

mcatquestion.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mcatquestion.com SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mcatquestion.com 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 Mcatquestion.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 MCAT Question. 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: