Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

nlm.nih.gov

National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

929 ms

nlm.nih.gov screenshot

About Website

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest biomedical library and the developer of electronic information services that delivers data to mi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nlm.nih.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nlm.nih.gov performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nlm.nih.gov

125 ms

nlm_main.css

88 ms

css

161 ms

all.css

139 ms

videojs.min.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Nlm.nih.gov, 13% (11 requests) were made to Nlmoccs.report-uri.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (781 ms) relates to the external source Script.crazyegg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Nlm.nih.gov main page is 1.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 824.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 4.6 kB, which is 11% 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 30.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 824.9 kB
  • After minification 817.4 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. Nlm Nih images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 194.2 kB

  • Original 374.9 kB
  • After minification 374.9 kB
  • After compression 180.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 194.2 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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. Nlm.nih.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (38%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nlm Nih. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nlm.nih.gov accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

nlm.nih.gov best practices score

58

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nlm.nih.gov SEO score

89

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nlm.nih.gov 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 Nlm.nih.gov 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 data is detected on the main page of Nlm Nih. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: