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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

medicine.northwestern.edu

Home: Department of Medicine: Feinberg School of Medicine: Northwestern University

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

911 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

Visit medicine.northwestern.edu now to see the best up-to-date Medicine Northwestern content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medicine.northwestern.edu

Meet the faculty and staff of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine and learn more about our research and educational programming.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicine.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

medicine.northwestern.edu performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicine.northwestern.edu

201 ms

NM-dept-responsive.css

237 ms

font-awesome.min.css

3 ms

rwd.css

51 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Medicine.northwestern.edu, 30% (9 requests) were made to Deptcommon.fsm.northwestern.edu and 10% (3 requests) were made to Feinberg.northwestern.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) belongs to the original domain Medicine.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

974.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medicine.northwestern.edu main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 928.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 30.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 928.7 kB
  • After minification 898.7 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. Medicine Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 111.7 kB
  • After minification 111.7 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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 58.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Medicine.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (43%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medicine Northwestern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medicine.northwestern.edu

medicine.northwestern.edu

201 ms

NM-dept-responsive.css

NM-dept-responsive.css

237 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

3 ms

rwd.css

rwd.css

51 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

47 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

115 ms

NM.js

NM.js

258 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

139 ms

silver-bg-vertical.jpg

silver-bg-vertical.jpg

46 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

43 ms

about_us.jpg

about_us.jpg

66 ms

academic-affairs-home.png

academic-affairs-home.png

168 ms

residents-2014-home.png

residents-2014-home.png

473 ms

research-home.png

research-home.png

377 ms

patient-care-home.png

patient-care-home.png

391 ms

douglas-e-vaughan-md.jpg

douglas-e-vaughan-md.jpg

110 ms

NM-Logo-Stacked-RGB.svg

NM-Logo-Stacked-RGB.svg

52 ms

NM-FSM-sprite.png

NM-FSM-sprite.png

64 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

52 ms

down-arrow.png

down-arrow.png

53 ms

Northwestern_horizontal_white-trimmed.svg

Northwestern_horizontal_white-trimmed.svg

34 ms

panels-sprite.png

panels-sprite.png

137 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

14 ms

9885.js

9885.js

17 ms

9885.js

9885.js

17 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

collect

collect

32 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

24 ms

bg_direction_nav.png

bg_direction_nav.png

23 ms

Accessibility Review

medicine.northwestern.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

medicine.northwestern.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medicine.northwestern.edu 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 Medicine.northwestern.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 Medicine.northwestern.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

medicine.northwestern.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Medicine Northwestern. 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: