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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

aacom.org

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) | AACOM

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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About Website

Visit aacom.org now to see the best up-to-date AACOM content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about aacom.org

Started in 1898, AACOM is the leading voice for the medical education and training of future osteopathic physicians at U.S. medical schools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aacom.org page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aacom.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aacom.org

19 ms

aacom.org

14 ms

www.aacom.org

24 ms

e8aa165b-5617-407b-a4a3-30c3864564a6

40 ms

js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Aacom.org, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 788.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aacom.org main page is 6.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 22.2 kB, which is 20% 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 92.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 676.3 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Obviously, AACOM needs image optimization as it can save up to 676.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 335.3 kB
  • After minification 335.3 kB
  • After compression 316.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. Aacom.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AACOM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

aacom.org

aacom.org

19 ms

aacom.org

aacom.org

14 ms

www.aacom.org

www.aacom.org

24 ms

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40 ms

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68 ms

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93 ms

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125 ms

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29 ms

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ScriptResource.axd

32 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

95 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

91 ms

login-status.js

login-status.js

47 ms

lodash.custom.min.js

lodash.custom.min.js

49 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

49 ms

prism.min.js

prism.min.js

46 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

48 ms

init-slick.min.js

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50 ms

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slick.min.min.js

52 ms

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222 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

156 ms

destination

destination

223 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

164 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

154 ms

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255 ms

accessibility.js

accessibility.js

188 ms

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122 ms

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118 ms

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123 ms

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183 ms

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184 ms

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182 ms

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188 ms

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188 ms

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190 ms

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186 ms

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185 ms

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189 ms

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195 ms

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191 ms

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196 ms

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194 ms

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280 ms

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312 ms

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612 ms

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615 ms

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614 ms

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614 ms

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612 ms

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611 ms

FullName

FullName

187 ms

js

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102 ms

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171 ms

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67 ms

333 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

52 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

77 ms

base.js

base.js

101 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

121 ms

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110 ms

embed.js

embed.js

41 ms

51 ms

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46 ms

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25 ms

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23 ms

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Create

Create

110 ms

Accessibility Review

aacom.org accessibility score

70

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-hidden="true"] is present on the document <body>

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

aacom.org best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

aacom.org SEO score

85

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

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 Aacom.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 Aacom.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

aacom.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of AACOM. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: