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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

wfirm.org

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) | Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

387 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to wfirm.org homepage info - get ready to check WFIRM best content right away, or after learning these important things about wfirm.org

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is a leader in translating scientific discovery into clinical therapies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wfirm.org page load time and found that the first response time was 387 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wfirm.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine

387 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

72 ms

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

form.css

65 ms

style.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Wfirm.org, 37% (22 requests) were made to School.wakehealth.edu and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wfirm.org 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 96.5 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 60.5 kB, which is 39% 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 136.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. WFIRM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 490.5 kB
  • After minification 490.1 kB
  • After compression 467.0 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 124.9 kB
  • After minification 124.9 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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. Wfirm.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WFIRM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine

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387 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

72 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

form.css

form.css

65 ms

style.css

style.css

102 ms

coveo.css

coveo.css

134 ms

CoveoJsSearch.Lazy.min.js

CoveoJsSearch.Lazy.min.js

37 ms

4fab3c45.js

4fab3c45.js

71 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

34 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

76 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

69 ms

picturefill.min.js

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78 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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118 ms

jquery.mobile.custom.min.js

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81 ms

meganav.js

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116 ms

skrollr.min.js

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115 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

116 ms

typeahead.bundle.js

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117 ms

skip-navigation.js

skip-navigation.js

119 ms

bootstrapvalidator.min.js

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42 ms

main.js

main.js

118 ms

js

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505 ms

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coveo-util.js

118 ms

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118 ms

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319 ms

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319 ms

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387 ms

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373 ms

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378 ms

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376 ms

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393 ms

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386 ms

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425 ms

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497 ms

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486 ms

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509 ms

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547 ms

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192 ms

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196 ms

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283 ms

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194 ms

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122 ms

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

wfirm.org accessibility score

96

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

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

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

Best Practices

wfirm.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wfirm.org SEO score

84

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

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 Wfirm.org 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 Wfirm.org 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

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