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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

mcatquestionaday.com

M Prep | MCAT Question of the Day - Prep, Practice Questions, and More!

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcatquestionaday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mcatquestionaday.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcatquestionaday.com

21 ms

mcatquestion.com

229 ms

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

155 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mcatquestionaday.com, 46% (19 requests) were made to Mcatquestion.com and 29% (12 requests) were made to Leesimonov.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (269 ms) relates to the external source Request.mcatquestion.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

379.6 kB

After Optimization

342.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mcatquestionaday.com main page is 379.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 283.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 6.2 kB, which is 25% 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 19.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 48.6 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. Obviously, MCAT Question A Day needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 283.0 kB
  • After minification 283.0 kB
  • After compression 274.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Mcatquestionaday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MCAT Question A Day. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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mcatquestionaday.com

21 ms

mcatquestion.com

mcatquestion.com

229 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

155 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

38 ms

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jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

137 ms

styles.css

styles.css

157 ms

formstyles.css

formstyles.css

227 ms

styles2015.css

styles2015.css

161 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

103 ms

joinmailing2015f.php

joinmailing2015f.php

269 ms

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150 ms

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25 ms

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151 ms

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140 ms

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159 ms

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17 ms

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26 ms

Accessibility Review

mcatquestionaday.com accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

mcatquestionaday.com 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

SEO Factors

mcatquestionaday.com SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mcatquestionaday.com 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 Mcatquestionaday.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

mcatquestionaday.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MCAT Question A Day. 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: