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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

symptoms.webmd.com

Symptom Checker with Body from WebMD - Check Your Medical Symptoms

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Symptoms.webmd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 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

symptoms.webmd.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

symptoms.webmd.com

63 ms

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20 ms

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19 ms

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25 ms

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25 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Symptoms.webmd.com, 56% (60 requests) were made to Img.webmd.com and 26% (28 requests) were made to Css.webmd.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Honcode.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

992.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Symptoms.webmd.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 74.0 kB

  • Original 93.1 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. 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 74.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 116.8 kB

  • Original 647.0 kB
  • After minification 530.2 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, Symptoms WebMD needs image optimization as it can save up to 116.8 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 943.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 403.5 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 943.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 190.0 kB

  • Original 230.1 kB
  • After minification 214.0 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Symptoms.webmd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (60%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Symptoms 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

symptoms.webmd.com 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

symptoms.webmd.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

symptoms.webmd.com 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 Symptoms.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 Symptoms.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

symptoms.webmd.com

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