Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

novartis.ch

Novartis Schweiz

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

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About Website

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Novartis ist ein globales pharmazeutisches Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in der Schweiz. Wir entwickeln innovative Medikamente und Therapien, um die sich stets weiterentwickelnden Bedürfnisse von Patienti...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Novartis.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

novartis.ch performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.152

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

novartis.ch

31 ms

novartis.ch

39 ms

www.novartis.ch

130 ms

507 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Novartis.ch, 84% (38 requests) were made to Novartis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (688 ms) relates to the external source Novartis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

838.7 kB

After Optimization

741.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Novartis.ch main page is 838.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 458.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 118.7 kB
  • After minification 118.6 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 97.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 458.9 kB
  • After minification 458.9 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. Novartis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 193 B

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 202.9 kB
  • After compression 202.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 58.0 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. Novartis.ch has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (34%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Novartis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

novartis.ch accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

novartis.ch best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

novartis.ch SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Novartis.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Novartis.ch 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 Novartis. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: