Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

muschealth.org

MUSC Health – Changing What’s Possible | South Carolina

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

899 ms

Page Rendered

472 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Muschealth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

muschealth.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

muschealth.org

244 ms

gtm.js

101 ms

css

96 ms

health

258 ms

musc-svg-sprite.svg

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Muschealth.org, 23% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (258 ms) belongs to the original domain Muschealth.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

710.3 kB

After Optimization

442.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Muschealth.org main page is 710.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 401.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 251.7 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 248.7 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 36.1 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 251.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 401.9 kB
  • After minification 401.9 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. MUSC Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 16.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (25%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MUSC Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

muschealth.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

muschealth.org best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

muschealth.org SEO score

81

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

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