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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

medicine.northwestern.edu

Home: Department of Medicine: Feinberg School of Medicine

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

482 ms

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About Website

Visit medicine.northwestern.edu now to see the best up-to-date Medicine Northwestern content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medicine.northwestern.edu

Meet the faculty and staff of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine and learn more about our research and educational programming.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicine.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicine.northwestern.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicine.northwestern.edu

77 ms

medicine.northwestern.edu

101 ms

www.medicine.northwestern.edu

197 ms

bootstrap.min.css

76 ms

all.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Medicine.northwestern.edu, 20% (9 requests) were made to Deptcommon.fsm.northwestern.edu and 11% (5 requests) were made to Medtargetsystem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) relates to the external source Feinberg.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

753.4 kB

After Optimization

706.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medicine.northwestern.edu main page is 753.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 572.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 11.9 kB, which is 23% 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 41.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 572.4 kB
  • After minification 569.9 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. Medicine Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 109.1 kB
  • After minification 109.0 kB
  • After compression 107.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 753 B

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Medicine.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medicine Northwestern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medicine.northwestern.edu

medicine.northwestern.edu

77 ms

medicine.northwestern.edu

medicine.northwestern.edu

101 ms

www.medicine.northwestern.edu

www.medicine.northwestern.edu

197 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

76 ms

all.css

all.css

68 ms

css

css

87 ms

css

css

96 ms

landing-page.css

landing-page.css

119 ms

media-slider.css

media-slider.css

129 ms

v4.0.css

v4.0.css

58 ms

siteanalyze_16505.js

siteanalyze_16505.js

57 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

54 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

68 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

70 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

48 ms

common.js

common.js

171 ms

slick-slider.js

slick-slider.js

173 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

257 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

322 ms

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residents-hallway-herov2.jpg

296 ms

grey-slash.svg

grey-slash.svg

362 ms

OD-061224-McNally-Lab-size-down-9234-150x150.jpg

OD-061224-McNally-Lab-size-down-9234-150x150.jpg

363 ms

podcast-icon.svg

podcast-icon.svg

377 ms

arrow-right-white.svg

arrow-right-white.svg

343 ms

Feinberg-linear-white-240.svg

Feinberg-linear-white-240.svg

212 ms

pip-gradient-segment-green.svg

pip-gradient-segment-green.svg

217 ms

pip-gradient-segment-purple.svg

pip-gradient-segment-purple.svg

218 ms

Northwestern_horizontal_white-trimmed.svg

Northwestern_horizontal_white-trimmed.svg

215 ms

doctor-consultation-150x150.jpg

doctor-consultation-150x150.jpg

340 ms

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geneticsmosaicism-150x150.jpg

340 ms

Transplant_stock-150x150.jpg

Transplant_stock-150x150.jpg

366 ms

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susan-quaggin-updated-headshot.jpg

209 ms

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neely480x350.jpg

307 ms

research-glove480x350.jpg

research-glove480x350.jpg

271 ms

patient-care-photo-480x350.jpg

patient-care-photo-480x350.jpg

323 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

88 ms

font

font

139 ms

font

font

141 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

88 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

124 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

110 ms

72 ms

signal.js

signal.js

279 ms

fp.js

fp.js

14 ms

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

medicine.northwestern.edu accessibility score

92

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 have valid values

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

medicine.northwestern.edu 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

medicine.northwestern.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medicine.northwestern.edu 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 Medicine.northwestern.edu 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

medicine.northwestern.edu

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