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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

medcast.com.au

Quality, online, social learning for Health Professionals  | Medcast

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

419 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

433 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medcast.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 419 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medcast.com.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medcast.com.au

419 ms

medcast.com.au

1058 ms

js

91 ms

delighted.js

119 ms

lcp-square.webp

1100 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Medcast.com.au, 33% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.medcast.com.au and 21% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.medcast.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

344.4 kB

After Optimization

192.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medcast.com.au main page is 344.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 176.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 118.7 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.2 kB, which is 29% 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 100.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 176.6 kB
  • After compression 137.9 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 38.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Medcast.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medcast. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medcast.com.au

medcast.com.au

419 ms

medcast.com.au

medcast.com.au

1058 ms

js

js

91 ms

delighted.js

delighted.js

119 ms

lcp-square.webp

lcp-square.webp

1100 ms

medcast_logo.webp

medcast_logo.webp

1998 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

59 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

45 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

68 ms

bs5utils.js

bs5utils.js

198 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

76 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

404 ms

site-search-app.bundle.js

site-search-app.bundle.js

1170 ms

qhub_logo.webp

qhub_logo.webp

1940 ms

medcast-plus-brand-logo.webp

medcast-plus-brand-logo.webp

2089 ms

medcast-brand-logo.webp

medcast-brand-logo.webp

1964 ms

bootstrap-icons.min.css

bootstrap-icons.min.css

12 ms

budicon.bundle.css

budicon.bundle.css

199 ms

site.bundle.css

site.bundle.css

396 ms

hero.webp

hero.webp

1130 ms

hero_slide.webp

hero_slide.webp

1551 ms

hero-resus.webp

hero-resus.webp

1218 ms

72f06a8b164a1a21f8e1.ttf

72f06a8b164a1a21f8e1.ttf

780 ms

bootstrap-icons.woff

bootstrap-icons.woff

21 ms

Accessibility Review

medcast.com.au accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

medcast.com.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medcast.com.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Medcast.com.au 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 Medcast.com.au 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

medcast.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Medcast. 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: