Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ssabest.benefits.gov

Welcome to SSA BEST | SSABEST

Page Load Speed

831 ms in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

605 ms

Page Rendered

161 ms

ssabest.benefits.gov screenshot

About Website

Visit ssabest.benefits.gov now to see the best up-to-date SSABEST Benefits content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ssabest.benefits.gov

SSABest helps you find the benefits you may be eligible for through the Social Security Administration.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ssabest.benefits.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 766 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ssabest.benefits.gov performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ssabest.benefits.gov

65 ms

system.base.css

11 ms

date.css

16 ms

field.css

15 ms

node.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Ssabest.benefits.gov, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Govloans.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (440 ms) relates to the external source Govloans.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 640.9 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

367.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Ssabest.benefits.gov main page is 1.0 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 525.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 14.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 248.2 kB
  • After minification 174.3 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, SSABEST Benefits needs image optimization as it can save up to 73.9 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 364.8 kB

  • Original 525.2 kB
  • After minification 502.3 kB
  • After compression 160.5 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 364.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 216.5 kB
  • After minification 128.0 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Ssabest.benefits.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 187.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (69%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SSABEST Benefits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ssabest.benefits.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ssabest.benefits.gov 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ssabest.benefits.gov SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ssabest.benefits.gov 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 Ssabest.benefits.gov 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 SSABEST Benefits. 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: