Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

themdu.com

Professional medical indemnity for clinical negligence claims - The MDU

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

533 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

themdu.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The MDU content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about themdu.com

The MDU is the leading medical defence organisation in the UK. We provide professional medical indemnity to doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals. We also provide medico-legal advice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themdu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 533 ms and then it took 2.6 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

themdu.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.themdu.com

533 ms

iuu0inb.css

85 ms

83b7ac9de9.js

65 ms

style.min.css

15 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Themdu.com, 18% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (746 ms) belongs to the original domain Themdu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

736.2 kB

After Optimization

562.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Themdu.com main page is 736.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 416.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 39.3 kB, which is 46% 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 69.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 101.5 kB

  • Original 416.6 kB
  • After minification 315.2 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, The MDU needs image optimization as it can save up to 101.5 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 198.1 kB
  • After minification 198.1 kB
  • After compression 196.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 106 B

  • Original 36.5 kB
  • After minification 36.5 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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. Themdu.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (26%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The MDU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

themdu.com accessibility score

95

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

themdu.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

themdu.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Themdu.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 Themdu.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 The MDU. 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: