Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mercyheartcenter.org

The Heart Center at Mercy - Cedar Rapids, IA - Mercy Medical Center

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

mercyheartcenter.org screenshot

About Website

Visit mercyheartcenter.org now to see the best up-to-date Mercy Heart Center content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercyheartcenter.org

The Heart Center at Mercy in Cedar Rapids, IA, offers technology and skilled staff to treat heart conditions, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercyheartcenter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 2.2 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

mercyheartcenter.org performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercyheartcenter.org

295 ms

heart

247 ms

444 ms

styles.css

74 ms

thcm.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Mercyheartcenter.org, 14% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) belongs to the original domain Mercyheartcenter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 287.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Mercyheartcenter.org main page is 1.5 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 855.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 32.8 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 22.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 344 B

  • Original 855.3 kB
  • After minification 855.0 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. Mercy Heart Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 131.7 kB

  • Original 421.4 kB
  • After minification 403.2 kB
  • After compression 289.7 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 131.7 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 133.0 kB

  • Original 229.4 kB
  • After minification 228.6 kB
  • After compression 96.4 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. Mercyheartcenter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (70%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercy Heart Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mercyheartcenter.org accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

mercyheartcenter.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mercyheartcenter.org SEO score

86

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Mercyheartcenter.org 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 Mercyheartcenter.org 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 Mercy Heart Center. 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: