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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

parkinsons.va.gov

Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers Home

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

769 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parkinsons.va.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 769 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parkinsons.va.gov performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.119

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parkinsons.va.gov

769 ms

bootstrap.css

106 ms

layout.css

100 ms

accessibleMegaMenu.css

66 ms

health.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Parkinsons.va.gov, 15% (13 requests) were made to Va.gov and 7% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.eo.va.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Parkinsons.va.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 716.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Parkinsons.va.gov main page is 3.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 86.2 kB
  • After minification 65.8 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 20.4 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 71.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Parkinson S Va images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 312.9 kB

  • Original 788.1 kB
  • After minification 614.8 kB
  • After compression 475.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 312.9 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 267.6 kB

  • Original 508.4 kB
  • After minification 441.1 kB
  • After compression 240.8 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. Parkinsons.va.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.6 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (38%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parkinson S Va. 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 from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

parkinsons.va.gov

parkinsons.va.gov

769 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

106 ms

layout.css

layout.css

100 ms

accessibleMegaMenu.css

accessibleMegaMenu.css

66 ms

health.css

health.css

54 ms

slider.css

slider.css

56 ms

slide-menu-custom.css

slide-menu-custom.css

40 ms

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tabs.css

55 ms

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modal.css

82 ms

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all.css

93 ms

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1288 ms

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83 ms

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93 ms

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120 ms

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118 ms

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119 ms

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accessible2.js

120 ms

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121 ms

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121 ms

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24 ms

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456 ms

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476 ms

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428 ms

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328 ms

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120 ms

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99 ms

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63 ms

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site-styles.css

16 ms

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26 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

va-colors.min.css

va-colors.min.css

55 ms

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bg-middle-effect.png

918 ms

bg-header.jpg

bg-header.jpg

122 ms

arrow-right.svg

arrow-right.svg

916 ms

main-search-button.png

main-search-button.png

381 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

98 ms

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97 ms

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97 ms

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96 ms

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96 ms

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95 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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98 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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105 ms

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101 ms

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103 ms

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100 ms

NationalPADRECCLogo.jpg

NationalPADRECCLogo.jpg

1450 ms

CONSORTIUM-small-notext.gif

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101 ms

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101 ms

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102 ms

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103 ms

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164 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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166 ms

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vcl-logo.png

1036 ms

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797 ms

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887 ms

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1043 ms

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1039 ms

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1039 ms

social-instagram.png

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1041 ms

button-health.png

button-health.png

1045 ms

button-protect-your-health.png

button-protect-your-health.png

1159 ms

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1201 ms

badge_VCL.jpg

badge_VCL.jpg

1264 ms

badge_MHEV.jpg

badge_MHEV.jpg

1197 ms

js

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119 ms

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484 ms

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485 ms

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483 ms

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483 ms

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118 ms

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119 ms

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65 ms

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84 ms

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32 ms

collect

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55 ms

Accessibility Review

parkinsons.va.gov accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

parkinsons.va.gov 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parkinsons.va.gov SEO score

88

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 Parkinsons.va.gov 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 Parkinsons.va.gov 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

parkinsons.va.gov

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