Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

patientsafetyresearch.org

The Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice Home

Page Load Speed

642 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

321 ms

Page Rendered

225 ms

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About Website

Visit patientsafetyresearch.org now to see the best up-to-date Patient Safety Research content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about patientsafetyresearch.org

Headquartered at the Brigham and Women's Hospital under the direction of David W. Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, the Center's goal is the improvement o...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patientsafetyresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 546 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

patientsafetyresearch.org performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

patientsafetyresearch.org

96 ms

2col_leftNav.css

29 ms

counter_xhtml.js

26 ms

WEBBANNERDEC27v6.gif

73 ms

photodwbv2.png

158 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Patientsafetyresearch.org, 11% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com and 11% (1 request) were made to C.statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) relates to the external source C.statcounter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

344.2 kB

After Optimization

298.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Patientsafetyresearch.org main page is 344.2 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. Images take 333.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 5.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 333.3 kB
  • After minification 294.9 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. Obviously, Patient Safety Research needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 828 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. Patientsafetyresearch.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Patient Safety Research. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

patientsafetyresearch.org accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

patientsafetyresearch.org best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

patientsafetyresearch.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Patientsafetyresearch.org 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 Patientsafetyresearch.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Patient Safety Research. 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: