Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

uchospitals.edu

Hospitals, Clinics & Doctors in IL - UChicago Medicine

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

uchospitals.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uchospitals.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uchospitals.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uchospitals.edu

79 ms

www.uchospitals.edu

78 ms

index.shtml

76 ms

screen.css

68 ms

home.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Uchospitals.edu, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Admin.brightcove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (565 ms) belongs to the original domain Uchospitals.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

752.6 kB

After Optimization

475.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Uchospitals.edu main page is 752.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 439.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 71.4 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 57.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 439.0 kB
  • After minification 400.8 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. Uc Hospitals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 146.3 kB

  • Original 199.6 kB
  • After minification 176.7 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 146.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 42.6 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Uchospitals.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (49%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uc Hospitals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uchospitals.edu accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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.

Best Practices

uchospitals.edu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

uchospitals.edu SEO score

91

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 Uchospitals.edu 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 Uchospitals.edu 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 description is not detected on the main page of Uc Hospitals. 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: