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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

bcbsnj.com

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcbsnj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcbsnj.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.horizonblue.com

157 ms

Dismall-liue-due-as-the-for-very-his-good-implor

90 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfgqrux_10293240704151944.js

20 ms

launch-EN3f00dfd354534bdf911f6cd64e8f9afc.min.js

90 ms

horizonblue

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bcbsnj.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Gateway.foresee.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (999 ms) relates to the external source Horizonblue.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 476.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcbsnj.com main page is 8.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 6.3 kB, which is 15% 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 31.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 81.6 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 7.1 MB

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. Bcbsnj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 363.1 kB

  • Original 697.3 kB
  • After minification 697.3 kB
  • After compression 334.2 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 363.1 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 489 B

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Bcbsnj.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (50%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bcbsnj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.horizonblue.com

www.horizonblue.com

157 ms

Dismall-liue-due-as-the-for-very-his-good-implor

Dismall-liue-due-as-the-for-very-his-good-implor

90 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfgqrux_10293240704151944.js

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfgqrux_10293240704151944.js

20 ms

launch-EN3f00dfd354534bdf911f6cd64e8f9afc.min.js

launch-EN3f00dfd354534bdf911f6cd64e8f9afc.min.js

90 ms

horizonblue

horizonblue

41 ms

Glyphter.css

Glyphter.css

10 ms

style-dependency.css

style-dependency.css

34 ms

style.css

style.css

33 ms

plancomparison.css

plancomparison.css

34 ms

script-dependency.js

script-dependency.js

20 ms

script.js

script.js

19 ms

matchHeight.min.js

matchHeight.min.js

70 ms

plancomparison.js

plancomparison.js

71 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

70 ms

gateway.min.js

gateway.min.js

116 ms

Hamburger%20Menu.png

Hamburger%20Menu.png

94 ms

logo.png

logo.png

94 ms

hb-banner.jpg

hb-banner.jpg

99 ms

jd-power-single-image02.svg

jd-power-single-image02.svg

208 ms

logo.png

logo.png

95 ms

forbes-best-large-employer.svg

forbes-best-large-employer.svg

90 ms

Best_Employers_For_Diversity.png

Best_Employers_For_Diversity.png

96 ms

great_place_to_work_badge.png

great_place_to_work_badge.png

98 ms

JDP_CHP-24-Horizon-BlueCross-NewJersey.png

JDP_CHP-24-Horizon-BlueCross-NewJersey.png

648 ms

ncqa-accredited-2020.jpg

ncqa-accredited-2020.jpg

95 ms

ncqa-commendable-2020.jpg

ncqa-commendable-2020.jpg

96 ms

caqh-core-2020-trans.png

caqh-core-2020-trans.png

99 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

107 ms

roboto-v18-latin-700.woff

roboto-v18-latin-700.woff

996 ms

roboto-v18-latin-500.woff

roboto-v18-latin-500.woff

999 ms

roboto-v18-latin-regular.woff

roboto-v18-latin-regular.woff

998 ms

HB_Font.woff

HB_Font.woff

30 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

997 ms

Glyphter.woff

Glyphter.woff

29 ms

fs.trigger.js

fs.trigger.js

4 ms

fs.utils.js

fs.utils.js

6 ms

fs.compress.js

fs.compress.js

8 ms

Accessibility Review

bcbsnj.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

bcbsnj.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

bcbsnj.com SEO score

79

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bcbsnj.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Bcbsnj.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

bcbsnj.com

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