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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mdanderson.org

MD Anderson Cancer Center: Cancer Treatment & Cancer Research Hospital | MD Anderson Cancer Center

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

558 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mdanderson.org page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mdanderson.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,200 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mdanderson.org

125 ms

www.mdanderson.org

421 ms

A.clientlib-all.min.fcc77dfe2bde3b2358b2415af57b9b09.css.pagespeed.cf.EofZ6EBR48.css

233 ms

utag.sync.js

22 ms

external.min.98e3ca0b8766be3e6ebd01327878078d.js

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 219 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Mdanderson.org, 13% (28 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 4% (9 requests) were made to Gateway.answerscloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Mdanderson.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.9 MB (36%)

Content Size

13.5 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mdanderson.org main page is 13.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 230.2 kB

  • Original 262.9 kB
  • After minification 259.9 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 230.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 217.0 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 7.1 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. MD Anderson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.6 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 247.1 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. Mdanderson.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (58%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MD Anderson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mdanderson.org accessibility score

85

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

mdanderson.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

mdanderson.org SEO score

92

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

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 Mdanderson.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 Mdanderson.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

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