Access blog.geico.com. GEICO Living: Articles, Tips, Fun Facts, and More

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

709 ms

cache-base-css.php

141 ms

cache-base-js.php

120 ms

global.js

36 ms

homepage.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.geico.com, 16% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Geico.com.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.geico.com main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

Original 96.2 kB
After minification 75.0 kB
After compression 16.4 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 21.2 kB, which is 22% 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 79.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.8 MB

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. Blog GEICO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

Original 171.7 kB
After minification 171.7 kB
After compression 119.2 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 52.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 309.8 kB

Original 366.7 kB
After minification 366.5 kB
After compression 56.8 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. Blog.geico.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 309.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog GEICO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.