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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

alscare.com

ALS, lou gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Page Load Speed

511 ms in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

289 ms

Page Rendered

134 ms

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About Website

Welcome to alscare.com homepage info - get ready to check ALS Care best content right away, or after learning these important things about alscare.com

ALS, lou gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Information, resources and consultation for ALS patients and ALS caregivers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alscare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 423 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alscare.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alscare.com

88 ms

alscare.css

27 ms

alscare.js

50 ms

bg.gif

25 ms

main_01.jpg

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Alscare.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (119 ms) belongs to the original domain Alscare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

138.8 kB

After Optimization

127.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alscare.com main page is 138.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 124.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 2.3 kB, which is 19% 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 9.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 124.1 kB
  • After minification 123.9 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. ALS Care images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 635 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 945 B
  • After compression 452 B

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 635 B or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 337 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. Alscare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALS Care. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

alscare.com

alscare.com

88 ms

alscare.css

alscare.css

27 ms

alscare.js

alscare.js

50 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

25 ms

main_01.jpg

main_01.jpg

48 ms

nav_01.jpg

nav_01.jpg

47 ms

nav_02.jpg

nav_02.jpg

51 ms

nav_03.jpg

nav_03.jpg

50 ms

nav_04.jpg

nav_04.jpg

50 ms

nav_button_feeding_tube.jpg

nav_button_feeding_tube.jpg

50 ms

nav_05.jpg

nav_05.jpg

70 ms

nav_06.jpg

nav_06.jpg

72 ms

resources_caption.gif

resources_caption.gif

73 ms

resourcethumb.jpg

resourcethumb.jpg

75 ms

button1.gif

button1.gif

74 ms

livehope_caption.gif

livehope_caption.gif

74 ms

hopethumb.jpg

hopethumb.jpg

92 ms

feeding_tube_diagram.jpg

feeding_tube_diagram.jpg

96 ms

hand_massage.jpg

hand_massage.jpg

97 ms

memory_board_jeff.jpg

memory_board_jeff.jpg

97 ms

services_caption.gif

services_caption.gif

97 ms

servicethumb.jpg

servicethumb.jpg

99 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

114 ms

main_04.jpg

main_04.jpg

119 ms

Accessibility Review

alscare.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

alscare.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

alscare.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alscare.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Alscare.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alscare.com

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