Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% 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

symptomsbeta.webmd.com

Symptom Checker with Body from WebMD - Check Your Medical Symptoms

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Symptomsbeta.webmd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

symptomsbeta.webmd.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value79.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

symptoms.webmd.com

100 ms

webmd-ccm.min.js

126 ms

launch-529817435ade.min.js

528 ms

app.56256668.js

138 ms

chunk-2d0c86a3.7e3d0081.js

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Symptomsbeta.webmd.com, 10% (10 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Img.webmd.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Hbx.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 360.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

714.3 kB

After Optimization

354.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Symptomsbeta.webmd.com main page is 714.3 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 438.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 336.4 kB

  • Original 438.9 kB
  • After minification 438.0 kB
  • After compression 102.5 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 336.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 117 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Symptoms Beta WebMD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 272.3 kB
  • After minification 271.5 kB
  • After compression 248.6 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 99 B

  • Original 761 B
  • After minification 761 B
  • After compression 662 B

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. Symptomsbeta.webmd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (74%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Symptoms Beta 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 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

symptomsbeta.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

symptomsbeta.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

symptomsbeta.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 Symptomsbeta.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 Symptomsbeta.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

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