Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

skinmedica.com

Sites-Skinmedica-US-Site

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

719 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skinmedica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skinmedica.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skinmedica.com

31 ms

www.skinmedica.com

1098 ms

font-awesome.min.css

13 ms

fonts.css

20 ms

slick.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Skinmedica.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Skinmedica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (37%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Skinmedica.com main page is 3.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 85.7 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 20.5 kB, which is 24% 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 76.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 140.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. Skinmedica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 743.4 kB

  • Original 997.0 kB
  • After minification 827.5 kB
  • After compression 253.7 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 743.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 501.3 kB

  • Original 574.3 kB
  • After minification 392.9 kB
  • After compression 73.0 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. Skinmedica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 501.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (56%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skinmedica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skinmedica.com accessibility score

83

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

skinmedica.com best practices score

85

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

skinmedica.com SEO score

86

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

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 Skinmedica.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 Skinmedica.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 description is not detected on the main page of Skinmedica. 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: