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nmh.org

Northwestern Medicine | Northwestern Medicine

Page Load Speed

59.9 sec in total

First Response

394 ms

Resources Loaded

54.5 sec

Page Rendered

5.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nmh.org page load time and found that the first response time was 394 ms and then it took 59.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

nmh.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nmh.org

394 ms

northwestern-memorial-hospital

1037 ms

gtm.js

613 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6612 ms

icon

6610 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nmh.org, 25% (15 requests) were made to Nm.org and 18% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.8 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

633.8 kB

After Optimization

411.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Nmh.org main page is 633.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 459.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 120.5 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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 16.1 kB, which is 13% 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 85.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 22.8 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. Nmh images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 112.1 kB

  • Original 459.0 kB
  • After minification 452.5 kB
  • After compression 347.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 112.1 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. Nmh.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (71%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nmh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Nmh.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 Nmh.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

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