Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

medline.co.za

MedLine.co.za – Health South Africa

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

826 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medline.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 826 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

medline.co.za performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.medline.co.za

826 ms

style.css

146 ms

output.css

134 ms

styles.css

140 ms

style.responsive.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Medline.co.za, 15% (5 requests) were made to Api-public.addthis.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Medline.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 608.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

885.9 kB

After Optimization

277.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Medline.co.za main page is 885.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 719.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 84.5 kB
  • After minification 83.0 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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. 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 60.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 546 B

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 9.9 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. Med Line images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 484.6 kB

  • Original 719.8 kB
  • After minification 681.6 kB
  • After compression 235.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 484.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 61.9 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 54.8 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Medline.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Med Line. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medline.co.za accessibility score

92

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

medline.co.za 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

medline.co.za SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Medline.co.za 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 Medline.co.za 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 Line. 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: