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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

rateadrug.com

RateADrug.com - User Scores and Evaluations on over 8000 Rx medications and alternative therapies

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rateadrug.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rateadrug.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rateadrug.com

41 ms

www.rateadrug.com

23 ms

www.rateadrug.com

381 ms

AJS.js

34 ms

AJS_fx.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Rateadrug.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Peopleclaim.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) relates to the external source Peopleclaim.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.1 kB (32%)

Content Size

961.4 kB

After Optimization

650.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rateadrug.com main page is 961.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 357.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 193.0 kB

  • Original 254.2 kB
  • After minification 219.7 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.5 kB, which is 14% 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 193.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 357.0 kB
  • After minification 349.0 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. RateA Drug images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

  • Original 207.5 kB
  • After minification 207.3 kB
  • After compression 154.1 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 53.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 142.7 kB
  • After minification 142.6 kB
  • After compression 85.9 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. Rateadrug.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.9 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (59%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RateA Drug. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rateadrug.com

rateadrug.com

41 ms

www.rateadrug.com

www.rateadrug.com

23 ms

www.rateadrug.com

www.rateadrug.com

381 ms

AJS.js

AJS.js

34 ms

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40 ms

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43 ms

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44 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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30 ms

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55 ms

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54 ms

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58 ms

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79 ms

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19 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

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20 ms

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22 ms

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Accessibility Review

rateadrug.com accessibility score

56

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

rateadrug.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rateadrug.com SEO score

54

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Rateadrug.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 Rateadrug.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

rateadrug.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of RateA Drug. 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: