Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu

Massachusetts Health Policy Forum | The Heller School at Brandeis University

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

704 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 2.8 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

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu

109 ms

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu

77 ms

60 ms

css

197 ms

fonts.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu, 30% (20 requests) were made to and 19% (13 requests) were made to Heller.brandeis.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (610 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 304.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

932.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu main page is 1.2 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. 75% 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. CSS take 584.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.7 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 32.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 448.9 kB
  • After minification 435.0 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. Mass Health Policy Forum Brandeis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 68.6 kB

  • Original 164.3 kB
  • After minification 154.8 kB
  • After compression 95.7 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 68.6 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 189.9 kB

  • Original 584.3 kB
  • After minification 570.1 kB
  • After compression 394.5 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. Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 189.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mass Health Policy Forum Brandeis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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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 Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu 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 Masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu 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 data is detected on the main page of Mass Health Policy Forum Brandeis. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: