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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

acorda.com

Acorda Therapeutics Biotechnology Company | MS and Spinal Cord Injury Treatments

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Acorda content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about acorda.com

Acorda is a biotechnology company developing and commercializing neurology therapies for Parkinson’s disease, migraine and multiple sclerosis

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acorda.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 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

acorda.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acorda.com

39 ms

www.acorda.com

1290 ms

7c354d72.main.css

13 ms

7d72bbd1.modernizr.js

44 ms

css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Acorda.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to and 3% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Acorda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acorda.com main page is 1.5 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 885.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 52.7 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 20.4 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 45.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 885.1 kB
  • After minification 865.2 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. Acorda images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 210.4 kB

  • Original 460.3 kB
  • After minification 460.3 kB
  • After compression 249.9 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 210.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 124.7 kB

  • Original 148.8 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. Acorda.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acorda. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

acorda.com

acorda.com

39 ms

www.acorda.com

www.acorda.com

1290 ms

7c354d72.main.css

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13 ms

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44 ms

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85 ms

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166 ms

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69 ms

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117 ms

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241 ms

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bg-careers.jpg

243 ms

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plus.png

241 ms

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bg-patient01.jpg

244 ms

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243 ms

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241 ms

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244 ms

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bg-investors.jpg

246 ms

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246 ms

bg-patients.jpg

bg-patients.jpg

245 ms

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bg-patient02.jpg

248 ms

bg-patient02_mobile.jpg

bg-patient02_mobile.jpg

244 ms

bg-products.jpg

bg-products.jpg

247 ms

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bg-patient03.jpg

252 ms

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bg-patient03_mobile.jpg

248 ms

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249 ms

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253 ms

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251 ms

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246 ms

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250 ms

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243 ms

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248 ms

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248 ms

i.js

i.js

216 ms

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218 ms

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214 ms

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104 ms

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138 ms

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69 ms

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67 ms

analytics.js

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69 ms

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conversion_async.js

57 ms

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114 ms

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38 ms

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155 ms

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17 ms

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Accessibility Review

acorda.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

acorda.com 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

SEO Factors

acorda.com 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 Acorda.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 Acorda.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

acorda.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Acorda. 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: