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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

medschoolforyou.ca

IIS Windows Server

Page Load Speed

782 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

551 ms

Page Rendered

192 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medschoolforyou.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 743 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medschoolforyou.ca performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medschoolforyou.ca

39 ms

www.medschoolforyou.ca

96 ms

bootstrap.css

62 ms

jquery.min.js

11 ms

bootstrap.min.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Medschoolforyou.ca, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (190 ms) belongs to the original domain Medschoolforyou.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

918.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medschoolforyou.ca main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 812.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 41.7 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 6.9 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 31.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 812.2 kB
  • After minification 789.0 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. Medschoolforyou images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 120.5 kB

  • Original 219.9 kB
  • After minification 200.4 kB
  • After compression 99.4 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 120.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 26.6 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. Medschoolforyou.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (32%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medschoolforyou. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medschoolforyou.ca

medschoolforyou.ca

39 ms

www.medschoolforyou.ca

www.medschoolforyou.ca

96 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

62 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

11 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

44 ms

SiteLib.js

SiteLib.js

30 ms

datajs-1.1.0.min.js

datajs-1.1.0.min.js

52 ms

styles.css

styles.css

24 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

39 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

31 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

39 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

123 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

119 ms

Tether

Tether

111 ms

elqCfg.min.js

elqCfg.min.js

20 ms

logo.png

logo.png

20 ms

rotator_PCancer.jpg

rotator_PCancer.jpg

190 ms

rotator_Vaccines.jpg

rotator_Vaccines.jpg

64 ms

rotator_Concussions.jpg

rotator_Concussions.jpg

63 ms

rotator_MSFY.jpg

rotator_MSFY.jpg

88 ms

check.gif

check.gif

50 ms

learnmore.png

learnmore.png

44 ms

Register.png

Register.png

53 ms

twitter-bird-dark-bgs.png

twitter-bird-dark-bgs.png

53 ms

social_logos.png

social_logos.png

80 ms

mdlogo_white.png

mdlogo_white.png

79 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

79 ms

Tether

Tether

76 ms

collect

collect

65 ms

svrGP

svrGP

85 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

Accessibility Review

medschoolforyou.ca accessibility score

94

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

medschoolforyou.ca best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

medschoolforyou.ca SEO score

89

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

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

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medschoolforyou.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Medschoolforyou.ca 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

medschoolforyou.ca

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