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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

medicalindependent.ie

Medical News Ireland - Medical Independent

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

646 ms

Resources Loaded

13.2 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicalindependent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 646 ms and then it took 13.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicalindependent.ie performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.638

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicalindependent.ie

646 ms

default.aspx

5933 ms

mindo2_5.css

570 ms

jquery.min.js

38 ms

thickbox.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Medicalindependent.ie, 5% (4 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Medicalindependent.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 769.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medicalindependent.ie main page is 2.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 383.3 kB

  • Original 433.2 kB
  • After minification 405.6 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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 383.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 241.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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, Medical Independent needs image optimization as it can save up to 241.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 151.6 kB
  • After minification 128.3 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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 94.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Medicalindependent.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (45%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medical Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medicalindependent.ie

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646 ms

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5933 ms

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570 ms

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38 ms

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399 ms

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291 ms

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Accessibility Review

medicalindependent.ie accessibility score

63

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role] values are not valid

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

medicalindependent.ie best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

medicalindependent.ie SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Medicalindependent.ie 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 Medicalindependent.ie 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

medicalindependent.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Medical Independent. 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: