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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

tcmstudent.com

TCM Student - Acupuncture News, Opinions, and Information for Students and Practitioners

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tcmstudent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 2.5 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

tcmstudent.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tcmstudent.com

156 ms

styles-site.css

94 ms

show_ads.js

71 ms

banner41.jpg

36 ms

plusone.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Tcmstudent.com, 12% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Planetc1.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

845.9 kB

After Optimization

764.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tcmstudent.com main page is 845.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 615.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 32.0 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. 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 23.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 196.1 kB
  • After minification 190.7 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. TCM Student images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 615.1 kB
  • After minification 606.5 kB
  • After compression 562.2 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 248 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Tcmstudent.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 248 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (55%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TCM Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tcmstudent.com

tcmstudent.com

156 ms

styles-site.css

styles-site.css

94 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

71 ms

banner41.jpg

banner41.jpg

36 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

41 ms

rss1.gif

rss1.gif

56 ms

movabletype2.gif

movabletype2.gif

23 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

114 ms

acupuncture-needles-in-horse.jpg

acupuncture-needles-in-horse.jpg

32 ms

AAHPM+Annual+Meeting+2013.jpg

AAHPM+Annual+Meeting+2013.jpg

109 ms

aga_logo.gif

aga_logo.gif

173 ms

rss2.gif

rss2.gif

45 ms

ecto_powered.png

ecto_powered.png

47 ms

firefox.gif

firefox.gif

48 ms

pobox.png

pobox.png

48 ms

dragonbottomlittle.gif

dragonbottomlittle.gif

48 ms

bodyshadow4.gif

bodyshadow4.gif

27 ms

bgwhole.gif

bgwhole.gif

48 ms

banner41.jpg

banner41.jpg

81 ms

earacupoint.gif

earacupoint.gif

92 ms

1500_cover_03041.jpg

1500_cover_03041.jpg

35 ms

rats-300x216.jpg

rats-300x216.jpg

519 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

27 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

55 ms

rss2.gif

rss2.gif

136 ms

rss1.gif

rss1.gif

136 ms

1500_cover_03041.jpg

1500_cover_03041.jpg

60 ms

40154.jpg

40154.jpg

1988 ms

dragon-tiger.jpg

dragon-tiger.jpg

180 ms

220px-New60minutes.jpg

220px-New60minutes.jpg

163 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

85 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

260 ms

Canadian_Medical_Association_Journal.gif

Canadian_Medical_Association_Journal.gif

82 ms

aga_logo.gif

aga_logo.gif

29 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

1273 ms

3604799710-postmessagerelay.js

3604799710-postmessagerelay.js

17 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

14 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

4 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

27 ms

ads

ads

411 ms

ads

ads

575 ms

2008778771886125443

2008778771886125443

30 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

25 ms

s

s

5 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

23 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

29 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

9 ms

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

134 ms

icon.png

icon.png

16 ms

activeview

activeview

64 ms

dvbs_src.js

dvbs_src.js

32 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

15 ms

dvbs_src_internal126.js

dvbs_src_internal126.js

4 ms

verify.js

verify.js

154 ms

GhmJCpBREX7wgGMT0ZiWZLwlRNdtIOd5PV2NPLMoOVM.js

GhmJCpBREX7wgGMT0ZiWZLwlRNdtIOd5PV2NPLMoOVM.js

4 ms

globalpassback_160x600.gif

globalpassback_160x600.gif

82 ms

activeview

activeview

62 ms

Accessibility Review

tcmstudent.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

tcmstudent.com best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

tcmstudent.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Tcmstudent.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 Tcmstudent.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

tcmstudent.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of TCM Student. 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: