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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

children.webmd.com

WebMD Children's Health Center - Kids health and safety information for a healthy child

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

555 ms

Page Rendered

491 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Children.webmd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

children.webmd.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

children.webmd.com

29 ms

www.webmd.com

136 ms

otSDKStub.js

68 ms

otCCPAiab.min.js

71 ms

launch-3931f206f4f7.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Children.webmd.com, 48% (29 requests) were made to Img.lb.wbmdstatic.com and 22% (13 requests) were made to Img.wbmdstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.1 kB (68%)

Content Size

776.5 kB

After Optimization

250.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Children.webmd.com main page is 776.5 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 398.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 310.8 kB

  • Original 377.8 kB
  • After minification 374.6 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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 310.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 215.2 kB

  • Original 398.7 kB
  • After minification 398.7 kB
  • After compression 183.5 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 215.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (30%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Children WebMD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

children.webmd.com

children.webmd.com

29 ms

www.webmd.com

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136 ms

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68 ms

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71 ms

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48 ms

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126 ms

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337 ms

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95 ms

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96 ms

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68 ms

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65 ms

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60 ms

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74 ms

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76 ms

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100 ms

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101 ms

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117 ms

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121 ms

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122 ms

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40 ms

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40 ms

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38 ms

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39 ms

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53 ms

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27 ms

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

children.webmd.com accessibility score

63

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

children.webmd.com best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

children.webmd.com SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Children.webmd.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 Children.webmd.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

children.webmd.com

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