Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

scistat.com

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scistat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scistat.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scistat.com

332 ms

www.medcalc.org

53 ms

css2

41 ms

compressed_javascript.js

15 ms

count.js

639 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scistat.com, 86% (37 requests) were made to Medcalc.org and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (639 ms) relates to the external source Medcalc.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

248.1 kB

After Optimization

220.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Scistat.com main page is 248.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 215.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 21.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 215.5 kB
  • After minification 209.4 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. Scistat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scistat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scistat.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scistat.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

scistat.com SEO score

96

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

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 Scistat.com 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 Scistat.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

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