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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

selectiveinsurance.com

Home, Auto, Business & Flood Insurance Solutions | Selective

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Selective Insurance content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about selectiveinsurance.com

Selective offers primary and alternative market insurance solutions for commercial and personal customers as well as flood through the National Flood Insurance Program.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selectiveinsurance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

selectiveinsurance.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

selectiveinsurance.com

191 ms

www.selectiveinsurance.com

32 ms

www.selectiveinsurance.com

105 ms

www.selective.com

42 ms

www.selective.com

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Selectiveinsurance.com, 72% (33 requests) were made to Selective.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (440 ms) relates to the external source Selective.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 197.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

862.5 kB

After Optimization

665.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Selectiveinsurance.com main page is 862.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 596.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.3 kB

  • Original 70.8 kB
  • After minification 62.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 8.5 kB, which is 12% 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 58.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 596.8 kB
  • After minification 571.2 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. Selective Insurance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 113.1 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 194.9 kB
  • After compression 81.7 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 113.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (31%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Selective Insurance. 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

selectiveinsurance.com 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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

selectiveinsurance.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

selectiveinsurance.com SEO score

90

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 Selectiveinsurance.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 Selectiveinsurance.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 Selective Insurance. 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: