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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

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Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Employer.carefirst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

employer.carefirst.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

employer.carefirst.com

74 ms

redirection.jsp

1184 ms

home.page

199 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA27Vdefghijqrux_10247220811100421.js

19 ms

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Employer.carefirst.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Adservice.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Employer.carefirst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.7 kB (52%)

Content Size

697.0 kB

After Optimization

334.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Employer.carefirst.com main page is 697.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 273.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 46.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 152.3 kB

  • Original 265.0 kB
  • After minification 112.6 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. Obviously, Employer Carefirst needs image optimization as it can save up to 152.3 kB or 57% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 122.7 kB

  • Original 273.7 kB
  • After minification 272.0 kB
  • After compression 151.0 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 122.7 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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. Employer.carefirst.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.1 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (54%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Employer Carefirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

employer.carefirst.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

employer.carefirst.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

employer.carefirst.com SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Employer.carefirst.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 Employer.carefirst.com 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 Employer Carefirst. 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: