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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

bested.com

Insurance Continuing Education (CE) | BestEd CE

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

609 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bested.com page load time and found that the first response time was 609 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bested.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.166

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.cfm

609 ms

cfmessage.js

290 ms

cfajax.js

434 ms

cfform.js

368 ms

masks.js

298 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Bested.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) belongs to the original domain Bested.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 589.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

425.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bested.com main page is 1.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 609.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 36.1 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. 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 36.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 62.6 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. Best Ed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 298.8 kB

  • Original 609.3 kB
  • After minification 556.7 kB
  • After compression 310.6 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 298.8 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 248.1 kB

  • Original 289.4 kB
  • After minification 246.3 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Bested.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 248.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Ed. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.cfm

index.cfm

609 ms

cfmessage.js

cfmessage.js

290 ms

cfajax.js

cfajax.js

434 ms

cfform.js

cfform.js

368 ms

masks.js

masks.js

298 ms

bootstrap-4.0.0.css

bootstrap-4.0.0.css

665 ms

bested.css

bested.css

308 ms

all.css

all.css

47 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

jquery.mmenu.all.css

461 ms

js

js

82 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

441 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

323 ms

bootstrap-4.0.0.js

bootstrap-4.0.0.js

511 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.js

jquery.mmenu.all.js

506 ms

jquery.mmenu.dropdown.js

jquery.mmenu.dropdown.js

366 ms

jquery.mmenu.fixedelements.js

jquery.mmenu.fixedelements.js

387 ms

jquery.mmenu.themes.css

jquery.mmenu.themes.css

439 ms

jquery.mmenu.borderstyle.css

jquery.mmenu.borderstyle.css

460 ms

jquery.mmenu.fullscreen.css

jquery.mmenu.fullscreen.css

513 ms

jquery.mmenu.listview.css

jquery.mmenu.listview.css

511 ms

jquery.mmenu.dropdown.css

jquery.mmenu.dropdown.css

630 ms

api.js

api.js

44 ms

dolphin-logo-toponly.png

dolphin-logo-toponly.png

85 ms

dolphin-logo-short.png

dolphin-logo-short.png

84 ms

usa-map.jpg

usa-map.jpg

85 ms

dolphin-logo-short-flipped.png

dolphin-logo-short-flipped.png

85 ms

contactusicon128.png

contactusicon128.png

84 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

30 ms

Accessibility Review

bested.com accessibility score

87

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

bested.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bested.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Bested.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 Bested.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

bested.com

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