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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

josephmercola.com

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Josephmercola content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about josephmercola.com

Dr. Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com, the world’s leading natural health website where you can get the latest and highly significant natural health news and information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Josephmercola.com page load time and found that the first response time was 486 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

josephmercola.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.josephmercola.com

486 ms

style.css

432 ms

pagenavi-css.css

570 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

148 ms

jquery-ui.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Josephmercola.com, 26% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (703 ms) belongs to the original domain Josephmercola.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

477.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Josephmercola.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. 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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 127.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 48.0 kB
  • After minification 45.5 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. Josephmercola images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 869.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 381.5 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 869.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. Josephmercola.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (67%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Josephmercola. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.josephmercola.com

www.josephmercola.com

486 ms

style.css

style.css

432 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

570 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

148 ms

jquery-ui.js

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123 ms

MercolaWPscript.js

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92 ms

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87 ms

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158 ms

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86 ms

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112 ms

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43 ms

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58 ms

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83 ms

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527 ms

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526 ms

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522 ms

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520 ms

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703 ms

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23 ms

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18 ms

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170 ms

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263 ms

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313 ms

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Accessibility Review

josephmercola.com accessibility score

86

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

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

Best Practices

josephmercola.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

josephmercola.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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Josephmercola.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Josephmercola.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

josephmercola.com

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