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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

life-south.com

Fortegra

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

808 ms

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Life-south.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 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

life-south.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

life-south.com

135 ms

styles.css

85 ms

960_24_col.css

65 ms

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Life-south.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (537 ms) belongs to the original domain Life-south.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (74%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

553.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Life-south.com 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.7 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 529.8 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. Obviously, Life South needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 74% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 14.0 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Life-south.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Life South. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

life-south.com

life-south.com

135 ms

styles.css

styles.css

85 ms

960_24_col.css

960_24_col.css

65 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

41 ms

reset.css

reset.css

23 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

bg_main-container-caps.png

bg_main-container-caps.png

75 ms

bg_main-container.png

bg_main-container.png

48 ms

sprites.png

sprites.png

110 ms

img_branding-background.jpg

img_branding-background.jpg

167 ms

img_branding-button_0.png

img_branding-button_0.png

84 ms

img_branding-button_2.png

img_branding-button_2.png

116 ms

img_branding-button_3.png

img_branding-button_3.png

97 ms

clientLogin_btn.png

clientLogin_btn.png

97 ms

bg_body.png

bg_body.png

537 ms

fortegra-logo.png

fortegra-logo.png

86 ms

bg_footer-container-caps.png

bg_footer-container-caps.png

91 ms

bg_footer-container.png

bg_footer-container.png

126 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

Accessibility Review

life-south.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

life-south.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

life-south.com SEO score

93

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

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 Life-south.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 Life-south.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

life-south.com

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