Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com

Dr. Mercola's Natural Health Center

Page Load Speed

997 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

716 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

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The Natural Health Center by Dr. Mercola located in Chicago, IL, is a homeopathy and osteopathy clinic providing complete support towards your new state of wellness.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 907 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

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com

90 ms

www.natural-health-center.com

193 ms

GetCSS.aspx

29 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

164 ms

network-solutions-seal.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com, 55% (6 requests) were made to Media.mercola.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Natural-health-center.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (193 ms) relates to the external source Natural-health-center.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 469.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

789.4 kB

After Optimization

319.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com main page is 789.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 551.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. 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 7.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 226.4 kB
  • After minification 154.7 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. Obviously, Natural Health Center Mercola needs image optimization as it can save up to 71.6 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 390.9 kB

  • Original 551.8 kB
  • After minification 539.3 kB
  • After compression 160.9 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 390.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natural Health Center Mercola. 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

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com best practices score

69

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com 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 Naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com 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 Natural Health Center Mercola. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: