Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mims.ie

MIMS Ireland: Prescribing Guide for Healthcare Professionals

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

471 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing MIMS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mims.ie

MIMS Ireland is the essential drugs directory for Irish doctors, providing up-to-date prescribing information, recent clinical updates, guidelines and reference tables.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mims.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 471 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mims.ie performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.46

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mims.ie

471 ms

GroupedPostsPublic.css

78 ms

pc-style.css

149 ms

style.min.css

206 ms

classic-themes.min.css

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Mims.ie, 16% (16 requests) were made to D1l0gza1nowsqe.cloudfront.net and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source D1l0gza1nowsqe.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 594.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Mims.ie main page is 2.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 12.2 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 76.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. MIMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 464.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 559.6 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 464.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 120.6 kB
  • After minification 120.6 kB
  • After compression 116.3 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. Mims.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (69%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MIMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mims.ie accessibility score

86

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

mims.ie best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mims.ie SEO score

100

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

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 Mims.ie 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 Mims.ie 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 MIMS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: