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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

blogs.cancer.org

American Cancer Society | Information and Resources about for Cancer: Breast, Colon, Lung, Prostate, Skin

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

842 ms

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About Website

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Dedicated to helping people who face cancer. Learn about cancer research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education at cancer.org.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.cancer.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.9 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

blogs.cancer.org performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,240 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1513 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

12 ms

wp-biographia.min.css

9 ms

style.css

30 ms

css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.cancer.org, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Blogs.cancer.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 262.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

653.7 kB

After Optimization

391.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.cancer.org main page is 653.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 305.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 59.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 305.3 kB
  • After minification 289.5 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. Blogs Cancer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 104.2 kB

  • Original 156.5 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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 104.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 82.9 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Blogs.cancer.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Cancer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

1513 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

12 ms

wp-biographia.min.css

wp-biographia.min.css

9 ms

style.css

style.css

30 ms

css

css

74 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

12 ms

style.css

style.css

213 ms

widget.css

widget.css

9 ms

shortcode.css

shortcode.css

13 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

35 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

31 ms

bc.cbhs

bc.cbhs

105 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

29 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

30 ms

functions.js

functions.js

30 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

10 ms

googleplus.png

googleplus.png

11 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

10 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

11 ms

acs_logo.gif

acs_logo.gif

12 ms

buttons.png

buttons.png

12 ms

acs_fightcancer.gif

acs_fightcancer.gif

13 ms

acspc-039262.jpg

acspc-039262.jpg

15 ms

bg-main-nav.png

bg-main-nav.png

34 ms

icons.png

icons.png

14 ms

m_header.jpg

m_header.jpg

15 ms

Hand-on-a-Scale.jpg

Hand-on-a-Scale.jpg

36 ms

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14 ms

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34 ms

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footer-bbb.jpg

34 ms

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footer-hon.jpg

36 ms

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footer-nhc.jpg

34 ms

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remote-icon.png

34 ms

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Accessibility Review

blogs.cancer.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blogs.cancer.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.cancer.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blogs.cancer.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 Blogs.cancer.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

blogs.cancer.org

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