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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

medstar.org

MedStar Health - Healthcare Provider | Maryland, DC, Virginia

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

medstar.org screenshot

About Website

Visit medstar.org now to see the best up-to-date Med Star content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medstar.org

With 10 nationally respected hospitals and over 500 specialty, urgent care, and primary care locations. MedStar Health is the leading healthcare provider in Maryland, DC, and Virginia.

Visit medstar.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Medstar.org page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medstar.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medstar.org

35 ms

www.medstarhealth.org

495 ms

optimized-min.css

16 ms

optimized-min.css

34 ms

optimized-min.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Medstar.org, 73% (80 requests) were made to Medstarhealth.org and 11% (12 requests) were made to Medstarhealth-delivery.sitecorecontenthub.cloud. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Medstarhealth-delivery.sitecorecontenthub.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 568.8 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medstar.org main page is 3.0 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 114.6 kB

  • Original 135.6 kB
  • After minification 118.1 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 17.4 kB, which is 13% 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 114.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Med Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 354.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 977.5 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 354.4 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 204.5 kB
  • After minification 204.5 kB
  • After compression 154.8 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. Medstar.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (38%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Med Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medstar.org

medstar.org

35 ms

www.medstarhealth.org

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495 ms

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Accessibility Review

medstar.org 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

medstar.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

medstar.org SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medstar.org 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 Medstar.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

medstar.org

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