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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

alz.org

Alzheimer's Association | Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Help

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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About Website

Welcome to alz.org homepage info - get ready to check Alz best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about alz.org

Alzheimer's Association national site – information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alz.org page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alz.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alz.org

298 ms

ff-styles.css

72 ms

generalscripts2.js

74 ms

jquery.min.js

76 ms

mootools-core-1.4.5-full-compat.js

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Alz.org, 4% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (311 ms) belongs to the original domain Alz.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alz.org main page is 2.1 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 795.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 129.1 kB
  • After minification 116.4 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 106.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 108.0 kB

  • Original 795.5 kB
  • After minification 687.6 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. Obviously, Alz needs image optimization as it can save up to 108.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 457.9 kB

  • Original 714.0 kB
  • After minification 647.6 kB
  • After compression 256.1 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 457.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 395.0 kB

  • Original 468.7 kB
  • After minification 414.2 kB
  • After compression 73.7 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. Alz.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 395.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (45%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

alz.org accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alz.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alz.org SEO score

77

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alz.org 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 Alz.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

alz.org

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