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ehic.com

E111 Application & Renewal - European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

310 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

Visit ehic.com now to see the best up-to-date EHIC content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ehic.com

The E111 was replaced in 2005 with the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). There are no current plans to withdraw from the reciprocal health arrangements within the EU due to Brexit and those who n...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ehic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 310 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ehic.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ehic.com

310 ms

www.ehic.com

481 ms

www.e111.org.uk

4347 ms

www.e111.org.uk

390 ms

bootstrap.css

570 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ehic.com, 83% (19 requests) were made to E111.org.uk and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source E111.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

496.5 kB

After Optimization

232.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ehic.com main page is 496.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 176.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 137.2 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. EHIC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 176.2 kB
  • After minification 161.1 kB
  • After compression 67.4 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 108.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 145.8 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 140.3 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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. Ehic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 145.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EHIC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ehic.com

ehic.com

310 ms

www.ehic.com

www.ehic.com

481 ms

www.e111.org.uk

www.e111.org.uk

4347 ms

www.e111.org.uk

www.e111.org.uk

390 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

570 ms

styles.css

styles.css

255 ms

menuChildren.css

menuChildren.css

269 ms

main.css

main.css

360 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

275 ms

html5shiv-printshiv.js

html5shiv-printshiv.js

362 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

745 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

683 ms

menu.js

menu.js

534 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

182 ms

light.png

light.png

425 ms

flag-balls.jpg

flag-balls.jpg

363 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

271 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

350 ms

applynow.jpg

applynow.jpg

408 ms

european-health-insurance-card.jpg

european-health-insurance-card.jpg

520 ms

medley4.jpg

medley4.jpg

612 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

SEO Factors

ehic.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ehic.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ehic.com 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

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