Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

m.kidshealth.org

Nemours KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health

Page Load Speed

461 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

306 ms

Page Rendered

116 ms

m.kidshealth.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to m.kidshealth.org homepage info - get ready to check M Kids Health best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about m.kidshealth.org

KidsHealth is the #1 most-trusted source for physician-reviewed information and advice on children's health and parenting issues. For parents, kids, teens, and educators, in English and in Spanish...

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.kidshealth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 422 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.kidshealth.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.kidshealth.org

39 ms

520560191.js

111 ms

reset.css;pv823655fe09f22b7b

13 ms

mobDesk.js;pvd9adaf3fa633c2f8

20 ms

kh_mothership_mobile.css;pv97aa89d8a34973f1

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original M.kidshealth.org, 8% (2 requests) were made to Statse.webtrendslive.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Cdn.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (111 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.0 kB (60%)

Content Size

423.5 kB

After Optimization

170.5 kB

In fact, the total size of M.kidshealth.org main page is 423.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 272.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 11.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 73.3 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. M Kids Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 272.1 kB
  • After minification 258.0 kB
  • After compression 84.0 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 188.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 45.1 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. M.kidshealth.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Kids Health. 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.

Accessibility Review

m.kidshealth.org accessibility score

88

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

m.kidshealth.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m.kidshealth.org SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise M.kidshealth.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that M.kidshealth.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 M Kids Health. 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: