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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

barricks.com

Affordable Health Insurance Quotes, Anthem Blue Cross Individual Health & Dental Insurance, Marketplace, exchange

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

603 ms

Page Rendered

537 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barricks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barricks.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.737

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barricks.com

120 ms

frontpage_style.css

50 ms

container_style.css

54 ms

urchin.js

4 ms

count.js

279 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Barricks.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (279 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

231.6 kB

After Optimization

161.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barricks.com main page is 231.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 144.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 40.8 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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. 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 26.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 134.6 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. Barricks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 30.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 31.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 980 B

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. Barricks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barricks. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

barricks.com

barricks.com

120 ms

frontpage_style.css

frontpage_style.css

50 ms

container_style.css

container_style.css

54 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

4 ms

count.js

count.js

279 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

1b.gif

1b.gif

28 ms

1.gif

1.gif

28 ms

2b.gif

2b.gif

28 ms

2.gif

2.gif

55 ms

3b.gif

3b.gif

53 ms

3.gif

3.gif

54 ms

getQuotes.gif

getQuotes.gif

55 ms

DentalOnlineButton2.png

DentalOnlineButton2.png

55 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

54 ms

MyCurrentPic.jpg

MyCurrentPic.jpg

81 ms

HealthOnlineButton2.png

HealthOnlineButton2.png

81 ms

MedigapOnlineButton2.png

MedigapOnlineButton2.png

81 ms

MedicareAdvantageOnlineButton2.png

MedicareAdvantageOnlineButton2.png

82 ms

KeyBenefits-795.jpg

KeyBenefits-795.jpg

157 ms

_arrow.gif

_arrow.gif

81 ms

smglasses.jpg

smglasses.jpg

107 ms

Current_Newsletter.jpg

Current_Newsletter.jpg

107 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

200 ms

Accessibility Review

barricks.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

barricks.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

barricks.com SEO score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barricks.com 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 Barricks.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

barricks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Barricks. 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: