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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

altmd.com

Find an Acupuncturists, Acupuncture School, Acupuncture Class, News, Articles and Information

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

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Largest acupuncture practitioner, school and event directory in North America. Provides acupuncture news, articles and information about Acupuncture.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Altmd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 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

altmd.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

altmd.com

33 ms

www.acufinder.com

372 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

64 ms

otSDKStub.js

117 ms

adsbygoogle.js

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Altmd.com, 70% (19 requests) were made to Acufinder.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) relates to the external source Acufinder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Altmd.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 60.5 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 37.8 kB, which is 38% 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 86.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 152 B

  • Original 183.6 kB
  • After minification 183.5 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. Altmd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. Altmd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.7 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Altmd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

altmd.com accessibility score

63

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

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

altmd.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

altmd.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Altmd.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 Altmd.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

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