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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

militarybenefits.com

Military Benefits News and Resources | Military.com

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

437 ms

About Website

Welcome to militarybenefits.com homepage info - get ready to check Military Benefits best content right away, or after learning these important things about militarybenefits.com

Military.com provides millions of active military, retired and veterans with benefits information including health, education, military discounts, jobs and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Militarybenefits.com page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

militarybenefits.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,290 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.262

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

militarybenefits.com

66 ms

benefits

408 ms

otSDKStub.js

27 ms

fbb4e218-4eaa-422d-8f9f-466e5b87fe62.json

21 ms

location

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Militarybenefits.com, 18% (9 requests) were made to Military.com and 14% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (561 ms) relates to the external source Military.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.7 kB (37%)

Content Size

713.8 kB

After Optimization

447.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Militarybenefits.com main page is 713.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 353.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 265.9 kB

  • Original 307.0 kB
  • After minification 273.4 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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 33.7 kB, which is 11% 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 265.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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. Military Benefits images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 318 B

  • Original 353.7 kB
  • After minification 353.7 kB
  • After compression 353.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 459 B

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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. Militarybenefits.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (50%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Military Benefits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

militarybenefits.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

militarybenefits.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

militarybenefits.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Militarybenefits.com 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 Militarybenefits.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 data is detected on the main page of Military Benefits. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: