Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

medline.com

We make healthcare run better – Medline

Page Load Speed

80.5 sec in total

First Response

571 ms

Resources Loaded

45.8 sec

Page Rendered

34.1 sec

medline.com screenshot

About Website

Visit medline.com now to see the best up-to-date Medline content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medline.com

We’re a manufacturer, distributor and solutions provider helping our partners optimize their total supply chain and operating performance

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 571 ms and then it took 79.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medline.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.medline.com

571 ms

084e304e51ab2000f9e8af63020458408199c1bb7a7b094f0c02d696094ea658c301ca6fa731fcb0

925 ms

parent-styles.min.css

3991 ms

style.css

4335 ms

mdln-nav.css

5073 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Medline.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.8 sec) relates to the external source D2oh4tlt9mrke9.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (45%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Medline.com main page is 5.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 148.8 kB
  • After minification 143.9 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 117.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Medline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 462.2 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 1.2 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 191.9 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.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (58%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medline.com 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.

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 IDs 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

medline.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

medline.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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