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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

m.bcbsal.org

Health Insurance Alabama | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

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About Website

Welcome to m.bcbsal.org homepage info - get ready to check M Bcbsal best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about m.bcbsal.org

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama offers health insurance, including medical, dental and prescription drug coverage to individuals, families and employers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.bcbsal.org page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.bcbsal.org performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.27

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.bcbsal.org

99 ms

index.html

3041 ms

aui.css

212 ms

main.css

185 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original M.bcbsal.org, 7% (7 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Images4.newscred.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain M.bcbsal.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (47%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.bcbsal.org main page is 3.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 119.4 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 112.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. M Bcbsal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 305.8 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 1.0 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 558.2 kB

  • Original 666.4 kB
  • After minification 641.5 kB
  • After compression 108.2 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. M.bcbsal.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 558.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (51%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Bcbsal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

m.bcbsal.org 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

m.bcbsal.org best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m.bcbsal.org SEO score

89

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 M.bcbsal.org 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 M.bcbsal.org 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

m.bcbsal.org

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