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webmdhealth.net

WebMD - Better information. Better health.

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webmdhealth.net page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.2 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

webmdhealth.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

webmdhealth.net

202 ms

www.webmd.com

55 ms

WebMD_091e9c5e8004a22462.css

16 ms

2_column_layout_harmony22.css

22 ms

template_Harmony%20Flexible%20Layout%20Base%20Template_091e9c5e80edcfbd_tmodules_css_584.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Webmdhealth.net, 64% (119 requests) were made to Img.webmd.com and 10% (19 requests) were made to Css.webmd.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) relates to the external source Honcode.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Webmdhealth.net main page is 2.1 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. Javascripts take 907.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 126.8 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 108.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 887.3 kB
  • After minification 753.0 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. Obviously, WebMD Health needs image optimization as it can save up to 134.3 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 630.9 kB

  • Original 907.6 kB
  • After minification 843.7 kB
  • After compression 276.7 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 630.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 131.3 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 142.6 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Webmdhealth.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (39%)

Requests Now

175

After Optimization

107

The browser has sent 175 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WebMD Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

webmdhealth.net SEO score

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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 Webmdhealth.net 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 Webmdhealth.net 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 WebMD Health. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: