Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

a.patient.info

Symptom Checker, Health Information and Medicines Guide | Patient

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

a.patient.info screenshot

About Website

Welcome to a.patient.info homepage info - get ready to check A Patient best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about a.patient.info

The same info as provided by GPs to patients during consultations,health/disease leaflets,patient support orgs,all about medicines,book GP appts online,interactive patient experience forum

Visit a.patient.info

Key Findings

We analyzed A.patient.info page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

a.patient.info performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

a.patient.info

38 ms

a.patient.info

71 ms

js

118 ms

p7.min.css

25 ms

videojs.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original A.patient.info, 28% (9 requests) were made to Patientalpha.azureedge.net and 22% (7 requests) were made to Patientstoragealpha.blob.core.windows.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (627 ms) relates to the external source Patient.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

983.7 kB

After Optimization

810.3 kB

In fact, the total size of A.patient.info main page is 983.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 591.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 161.4 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 48.1 kB, which is 30% 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 133.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 112.1 kB
  • After minification 109.9 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. A Patient images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 591.4 kB
  • After minification 591.4 kB
  • After compression 589.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 118.8 kB
  • After minification 118.8 kB
  • After compression 83.2 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. A.patient.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of A Patient. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

a.patient.info accessibility score

91

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

a.patient.info best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

a.patient.info SEO score

85

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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 A.patient.info 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 A.patient.info 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 A Patient. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: