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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

web.musc.edu

The Medical University of South Carolina | MUSC | Charleston, SC

Page Load Speed

788 ms in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

372 ms

Page Rendered

347 ms

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About Website

Visit web.musc.edu now to see the best up-to-date Web MUSC content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about web.musc.edu

Information and links to leadership and other offices at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Web.musc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 719 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

web.musc.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

web.musc.edu

69 ms

gtm.js

126 ms

css

36 ms

enterprise

45 ms

xek7exb.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Web.musc.edu, 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (213 ms) belongs to the original domain Web.musc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

752.7 kB

After Optimization

577.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Web.musc.edu main page is 752.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 557.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 175.2 kB

  • Original 195.0 kB
  • After minification 164.4 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 30.6 kB, which is 16% 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 175.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 557.7 kB
  • After minification 557.6 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. Web MUSC images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (33%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web MUSC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

web.musc.edu

web.musc.edu

69 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

126 ms

css

css

36 ms

enterprise

enterprise

45 ms

xek7exb.css

xek7exb.css

31 ms

bottomJs

bottomJs

213 ms

mainBundleJs

mainBundleJs

125 ms

p.css

p.css

32 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

29 ms

icon-notification-info.png

icon-notification-info.png

39 ms

musc-svg-sprite.svg

musc-svg-sprite.svg

90 ms

search-health.svg

search-health.svg

57 ms

hispanic-heritage-web-banner.png

hispanic-heritage-web-banner.png

60 ms

wellness-center-equipment.jpg

wellness-center-equipment.jpg

80 ms

ethiopia-mulugeta-gebregziabher-in-amdo.jpg

ethiopia-mulugeta-gebregziabher-in-amdo.jpg

85 ms

burke-with-spine-model.jpg

burke-with-spine-model.jpg

113 ms

duncan-doueiry-banner.jpg

duncan-doueiry-banner.jpg

141 ms

commencement-president-clapping.jpg

commencement-president-clapping.jpg

124 ms

musc-svg-sprite.svg

musc-svg-sprite.svg

125 ms

Accessibility Review

web.musc.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

web.musc.edu 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

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

web.musc.edu 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 Web.musc.edu 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 Web.musc.edu 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

web.musc.edu

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