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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

barricks.com

Affordable Health Insurance Quotes, Anthem Blue Cross Individual Health & Dental Insurance, Marketplace, exchange

Page Load Speed

741 ms in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

551 ms

Page Rendered

97 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barricks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 648 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barricks.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.441

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barricks.com

93 ms

barricks.com

150 ms

frontpage_style.css

35 ms

container_style.css

67 ms

urchin.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Barricks.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (243 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.1 kB (58%)

Content Size

66.2 kB

After Optimization

28.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barricks.com main page is 66.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 42.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 6.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 313 B

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 13.2 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. Barricks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 30.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 31.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 303 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 980 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. Barricks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barricks. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

barricks.com

barricks.com

93 ms

barricks.com

barricks.com

150 ms

frontpage_style.css

frontpage_style.css

35 ms

container_style.css

container_style.css

67 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

8 ms

count.js

count.js

243 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

30 ms

1b.gif

1b.gif

34 ms

1.gif

1.gif

68 ms

2b.gif

2b.gif

120 ms

2.gif

2.gif

102 ms

3b.gif

3b.gif

135 ms

3.gif

3.gif

134 ms

getQuotes.gif

getQuotes.gif

136 ms

DentalOnlineButton2.png

DentalOnlineButton2.png

135 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

134 ms

MyCurrentPic.jpg

MyCurrentPic.jpg

167 ms

HealthOnlineButton2.png

HealthOnlineButton2.png

171 ms

MedigapOnlineButton2.png

MedigapOnlineButton2.png

167 ms

MedicareAdvantageOnlineButton2.png

MedicareAdvantageOnlineButton2.png

166 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

61 ms

Accessibility Review

barricks.com accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

barricks.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

barricks.com SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barricks.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 Barricks.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

barricks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Barricks. 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: