Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

medel.com

MED-EL | Cochlear Implants for Hearing Loss

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

426 ms

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

medel.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to medel.com homepage info - get ready to check MED EL best content for Austria right away, or after learning these important things about medel.com

Cochlear implants and hearing solutions from MED-EL—helping children and adults with hearing loss.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 426 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medel.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medel.com

426 ms

2999 ms

styles_costumer.css

91 ms

styles_size1.css

185 ms

styles_startpage.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Medel.com, 12% (13 requests) were made to S3.medel.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Gdata.youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Medel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 718.5 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Medel.com main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 74.6 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 12.9 kB, which is 17% 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 60.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. MED EL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 447.2 kB

  • Original 567.4 kB
  • After minification 353.1 kB
  • After compression 120.3 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 447.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 137.0 kB

  • Original 183.5 kB
  • After minification 174.9 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Medel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 137.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (63%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MED EL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medel.com accessibility score

70

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

medel.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medel.com SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medel.com 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 Medel.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 MED EL. 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: