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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

bcbsil.com

Illinois Health Insurance | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

Page Load Speed

27 sec in total

First Response

616 ms

Resources Loaded

19.5 sec

Page Rendered

6.9 sec

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About Website

Welcome to bcbsil.com homepage info - get ready to check Bcbsil best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about bcbsil.com

BCBSIL offers individual, family, Medicare and Medicaid plans with COVID-19 coverage. Learn about benefits, including COVID-19 testing and treatment, over-the-counter (OTC) tests, vaccines and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcbsil.com page load time and found that the first response time was 616 ms and then it took 26.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcbsil.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bcbsil.com

616 ms

offcanvas.css

337 ms

foundation.css

353 ms

bcbs-2015.css

650 ms

hcscEN.css

611 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Bcbsil.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Metrics.brightcove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Metrics.brightcove.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (65%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcbsil.com main page is 3.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 77.3 kB
  • After minification 54.4 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 22.9 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 64.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 751.7 kB
  • After minification 707.8 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. Bcbsil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 458.5 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 1.6 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 714.0 kB

  • Original 814.0 kB
  • After minification 653.7 kB
  • After compression 100.0 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. Bcbsil.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 714.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (58%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bcbsil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bcbsil.com

www.bcbsil.com

616 ms

offcanvas.css

offcanvas.css

337 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

353 ms

bcbs-2015.css

bcbs-2015.css

650 ms

hcscEN.css

hcscEN.css

611 ms

hcscES.css

hcscES.css

543 ms

jquery.ui.resizable.css

jquery.ui.resizable.css

543 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

645 ms

custom.modernizr.js

custom.modernizr.js

622 ms

respond.src.js

respond.src.js

643 ms

require.js

require.js

643 ms

iq-cart.js

iq-cart.js

625 ms

site_alert.js

site_alert.js

624 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

1036 ms

oo_engine.min.js

oo_engine.min.js

1035 ms

oo_conf.js

oo_conf.js

1034 ms

ivy_hcsc.js

ivy_hcsc.js

1012 ms

form-master.js

form-master.js

1013 ms

jquery.h5validate.js

jquery.h5validate.js

1013 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

2159 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

1046 ms

NinaLoader.js

NinaLoader.js

1046 ms

bcbs-home.css

bcbs-home.css

1079 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

1025 ms

siteminder_cookie_il.js

siteminder_cookie_il.js

1045 ms

BrightcoveExperiences.js

BrightcoveExperiences.js

1028 ms

floatingHead.js

floatingHead.js

960 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

1292 ms

jquery.offcanvas.js

jquery.offcanvas.js

1035 ms

foundation.dropdown.js

foundation.dropdown.js

1034 ms

foundation.reveal.js

foundation.reveal.js

1034 ms

foundation.section.js

foundation.section.js

1034 ms

main.js

main.js

1259 ms

mpel.js

mpel.js

911 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

879 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

867 ms

serverComponent.php

serverComponent.php

58 ms

sm_000_oo.gif

sm_000_oo.gif

279 ms

icon_espanol.png

icon_espanol.png

279 ms

large-header-logo_IL.png

large-header-logo_IL.png

247 ms

search-ico.png

search-ico.png

265 ms

icon-side-menu.png

icon-side-menu.png

265 ms

logo-bcbsil-small.png

logo-bcbsil-small.png

265 ms

icon-home.png

icon-home.png

265 ms

bam_sm_transparent.png

bam_sm_transparent.png

266 ms

login-logo-bam.png

login-logo-bam.png

265 ms

login-logo-bae.png

login-logo-bae.png

263 ms

login-logo-bap.png

login-logo-bap.png

312 ms

make-a-payment-icon.png

make-a-payment-icon.png

341 ms

2018-updates.svg

2018-updates.svg

311 ms

help-me-choose-icon.png

help-me-choose-icon.png

339 ms

member-alert-icon.png

member-alert-icon.png

338 ms

go-mobile-icon.png

go-mobile-icon.png

323 ms

attend-a-seminar-icon.png

attend-a-seminar-icon.png

354 ms

right-arrow.png

right-arrow.png

354 ms

small-footer-icon-facebook.png

small-footer-icon-facebook.png

287 ms

small-footer-icon-twitter.png

small-footer-icon-twitter.png

287 ms

small-footer-icon-youtube.png

small-footer-icon-youtube.png

287 ms

small-footer-icon-google.png

small-footer-icon-google.png

292 ms

small-footer-icon-connect.png

small-footer-icon-connect.png

292 ms

btn-search-2.png

btn-search-2.png

284 ms

ivy-widget-bg.png

ivy-widget-bg.png

312 ms

search-ico.png

search-ico.png

384 ms

ff21278b0245cc211c9e8c1643e9811b.js

ff21278b0245cc211c9e8c1643e9811b.js

262 ms

login_arrow_closed.png

login_arrow_closed.png

35 ms

c7dbef7af56b6edb638564685b8b731b.js

c7dbef7af56b6edb638564685b8b731b.js

212 ms

Univers-Condensed.woff

Univers-Condensed.woff

250 ms

mappings.json

mappings.json

955 ms

bcbs-home-box1.png

bcbs-home-box1.png

2446 ms

medicaid-icon.png

medicaid-icon.png

304 ms

wyg-icon.png

wyg-icon.png

290 ms

find-a-doc-icon-2.png

find-a-doc-icon-2.png

287 ms

medicare-image.jpg

medicare-image.jpg

286 ms

aler-message-icon.png

aler-message-icon.png

287 ms

home-icons.png

home-icons.png

168 ms

univers-condensedlight-webfont.woff

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257 ms

Univers-CondensedBold.woff

Univers-CondensedBold.woff

193 ms

index.html

index.html

552 ms

tracker

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3129 ms

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3067 ms

shopper

shopper

3096 ms

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148 ms

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vjs.woff

vjs.woff

400 ms

tracker

tracker

302 ms

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143 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

183 ms

Accessibility Review

bcbsil.com accessibility score

70

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

bcbsil.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bcbsil.com SEO score

73

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bcbsil.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 Bcbsil.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

bcbsil.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bcbsil. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: