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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

patient.info

Symptom Checker, Health Information and Medicines Guide | Patient

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

367 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

476 ms

patient.info screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Patient content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about patient.info

The same info as provided by GPs to patients during consultations,health/disease leaflets,patient support orgs,all about medicines,book GP appts online,interactive patient experience forum

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patient.info page load time and found that the first response time was 367 ms and then it took 2.3 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

patient.info performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.243

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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367 ms

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347 ms

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250 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Patient.info, 9% (7 requests) were made to S6.patient.media and 9% (7 requests) were made to S0.patient.media. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) belongs to the original domain Patient.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 692.0 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

592.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Patient.info 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 684.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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. 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 42.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 203.3 kB
  • After minification 198.2 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. Patient images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 456.9 kB

  • Original 684.7 kB
  • After minification 681.1 kB
  • After compression 227.9 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 456.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 187.2 kB

  • Original 340.7 kB
  • After minification 340.6 kB
  • After compression 153.5 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. Patient.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 187.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (62%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Patient. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

patient.info accessibility score

91

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

patient.info best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

patient.info SEO score

92

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Patient.info 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 Patient.info main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

patient.info

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