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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

medicalxpress.co

Medical Xpress - medical research advances and health news

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

744 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicalxpress.co page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicalxpress.co performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicalxpress.co

34 ms

medicalxpress.com

87 ms

libs.322202754.css

29 ms

style.3135767896.css

72 ms

js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Medicalxpress.co, 47% (15 requests) were made to Medx.b-cdn.net and 16% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) relates to the external source Scx1.b-cdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

876.9 kB

After Optimization

735.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medicalxpress.co main page is 876.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 583.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 126.8 kB

  • Original 153.3 kB
  • After minification 122.2 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 31.1 kB, which is 20% 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 126.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 449 B

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 99.5 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. Medical Xpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 583.8 kB
  • After minification 583.8 kB
  • After compression 569.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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. Medicalxpress.co has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medical Xpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medicalxpress.co

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34 ms

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87 ms

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29 ms

style.3135767896.css

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72 ms

js

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74 ms

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235 ms

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61 ms

libs.601969890.js

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27 ms

common.322202754.js

common.322202754.js

26 ms

css

css

27 ms

css

css

46 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

248 ms

logo.png

logo.png

155 ms

study-explores-the-cel.jpg

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264 ms

quant.js

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218 ms

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81 ms

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80 ms

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81 ms

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sprite.svg

81 ms

Physorg.svg

Physorg.svg

80 ms

TechXplore.png

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83 ms

ScienceX.svg

ScienceX.svg

89 ms

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222 ms

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sprite.svg

75 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

125 ms

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142 ms

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186 ms

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203 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVc.ttf

203 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

69 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

254 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

83 ms

Accessibility Review

medicalxpress.co accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

medicalxpress.co best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medicalxpress.co SEO score

86

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

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 Medicalxpress.co 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 Medicalxpress.co 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Medical Xpress. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: