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medi-fax.com

Medi-Fax.Com: A website for Canadian neurosciences

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medi-fax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Medi-fax.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

medi-fax.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

default.aspx

239 ms

styles.css

134 ms

rc.img

27 ms

mf.gif

29 ms

topNews

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Medi-fax.com, 32% (31 requests) were made to Feeds.feedburner.com and 22% (21 requests) were made to Rc.feedsportal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source P.liadm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

177.5 kB

After Optimization

136.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Medi-fax.com main page is 177.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 119.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 29.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 119.1 kB
  • After minification 111.9 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. Medi Fax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Medi-fax.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (70%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medi Fax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

medi-fax.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medi-fax.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 Medi-fax.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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