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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

needlesticksafety.org

Needlestick Safety - Needle Injury Prevention VEI Safety Blog

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

838 ms

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

Visit needlesticksafety.org now to see the best up-to-date Needlestick Safety content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about needlesticksafety.org

Needlestick Safety provides education about the safest medical devices, needle design flaws, and needle safety legislation in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Needlesticksafety.org page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 1.1 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

needlesticksafety.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

needlesticksafety.org

296 ms

rokbox-style.css

51 ms

modal.css

97 ms

grid-12.css

106 ms

gantry.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Needlesticksafety.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) belongs to the original domain Needlesticksafety.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

383.6 kB

After Optimization

340.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Needlesticksafety.org main page is 383.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 229.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 12% 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 16.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 77.4 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, Needlestick Safety needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 229.7 kB
  • After minification 229.2 kB
  • After compression 224.8 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Needlesticksafety.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (74%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Needlestick Safety. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

needlesticksafety.org

needlesticksafety.org

296 ms

rokbox-style.css

rokbox-style.css

51 ms

modal.css

modal.css

97 ms

grid-12.css

grid-12.css

106 ms

gantry.css

gantry.css

102 ms

joomla.css

joomla.css

106 ms

joomla.css

joomla.css

108 ms

main-light.css

main-light.css

104 ms

backgrounds.css

backgrounds.css

144 ms

typography.css

typography.css

150 ms

extensions.css

extensions.css

158 ms

extensions-light.css

extensions-light.css

152 ms

thirdparty-k2.css

thirdparty-k2.css

153 ms

thirdparty-k2-light.css

thirdparty-k2-light.css

155 ms

demo-styles.css

demo-styles.css

191 ms

template.css

template.css

198 ms

fusionmenu.css

fusionmenu.css

201 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

255 ms

core.js

core.js

204 ms

caption.js

caption.js

204 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

339 ms

rokbox.js

rokbox.js

247 ms

rokbox-config.js

rokbox-config.js

250 ms

modal.js

modal.js

251 ms

gantry-totop.js

gantry-totop.js

251 ms

gantry-smartload.js

gantry-smartload.js

296 ms

gantry-buildspans.js

gantry-buildspans.js

298 ms

gantry-inputs.js

gantry-inputs.js

298 ms

browser-engines.js

browser-engines.js

299 ms

load-transition.js

load-transition.js

302 ms

fusion.js

fusion.js

374 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

15 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

31 ms

rubber.png

rubber.png

56 ms

logo.png

logo.png

108 ms

navigation-bg.png

navigation-bg.png

55 ms

assp-logo.JPG

assp-logo.JPG

54 ms

readon.png

readon.png

55 ms

readon-plus.png

readon-plus.png

54 ms

andy-stern-feature.jpg

andy-stern-feature.jpg

154 ms

cdc_logo.jpg

cdc_logo.jpg

106 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

31 ms

roboto-regular-webfont.woff

roboto-regular-webfont.woff

122 ms

totop-arrow.png

totop-arrow.png

58 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

6 ms

Accessibility Review

needlesticksafety.org accessibility score

92

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

needlesticksafety.org best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

needlesticksafety.org SEO score

67

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

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 Needlesticksafety.org 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 Needlesticksafety.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

needlesticksafety.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Needlestick Safety. 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: