Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

metlife.ae

Health Insurance Company | MetLife

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Met Life content for United Arab Emirates. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about metlife.ae

MetLife UAE is one of the largest health insurance companies offering a flexible range of life insurance plans and investment products to help you turn your dreams into reality.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metlife.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metlife.ae performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.503

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metlife.ae

87 ms

en.html

14 ms

8 ms

global.min.css

5 ms

site-vendor.min.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Metlife.ae, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Cmp.osano.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.osano.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 340.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Metlife.ae main page is 4.5 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 166.5 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 50.6 kB, which is 30% 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 148.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 191.7 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Met Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 122.2 kB
  • After minification 122.2 kB
  • After compression 122.1 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 138 B
  • After minification 138 B
  • After compression 113 B

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. Metlife.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (23%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Met Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metlife.ae accessibility score

67

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

metlife.ae SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 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 Metlife.ae 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 Metlife.ae 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 Met Life. 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: