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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

service.northwesternmutual.com

Northwestern Mutual | A Financial Planning, Life Insurance & Investment Services Company

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

876 ms

Page Rendered

394 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Service.northwesternmutual.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

service.northwesternmutual.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

service.northwesternmutual.com

35 ms

service.northwesternmutual.com

176 ms

www.northwesternmutual.com

146 ms

styles.2c71df6c.css

84 ms

typ5dev.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Service.northwesternmutual.com, 79% (27 requests) were made to Northwesternmutual.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (325 ms) relates to the external source Northwesternmutual.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

800.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Service.northwesternmutual.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 716.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 219.1 kB

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 278.3 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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. 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 219.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 62.4 kB
  • After minification 25.9 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. Obviously, Service Northwestern Mutual needs image optimization as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 58% 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 1.2 kB

  • Original 716.5 kB
  • After minification 716.4 kB
  • After compression 715.3 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 388 B

  • Original 738 B
  • After minification 727 B
  • After compression 350 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. Service.northwesternmutual.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 388 B or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (48%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Service Northwestern Mutual. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

service.northwesternmutual.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

service.northwesternmutual.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

service.northwesternmutual.com SEO score

93

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

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 Service.northwesternmutual.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 Service.northwesternmutual.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 Service Northwestern Mutual. 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: