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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

news.brokersalliance.com

Life Insurance & Annuity Services for Agents & Financial Advisors :: Brokers Alliance

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

982 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.brokersalliance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 4.2 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

news.brokersalliance.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.brokersalliance.com

223 ms

www.brokersalliance.com

816 ms

ccm.base.css

72 ms

jquery.js

181 ms

ccm.base.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original News.brokersalliance.com, 72% (73 requests) were made to Brokersalliance.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Brokersalliance.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (11%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

9.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.brokersalliance.com main page is 10.4 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 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 44.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 71.3 kB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 8.9 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. News Brokers Alliance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 668.5 kB

  • Original 935.9 kB
  • After minification 861.4 kB
  • After compression 267.3 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 668.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 400.3 kB

  • Original 458.7 kB
  • After minification 390.2 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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. News.brokersalliance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 400.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (60%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Brokers Alliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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news.brokersalliance.com

223 ms

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816 ms

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72 ms

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108 ms

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Accessibility Review

news.brokersalliance.com accessibility score

94

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

news.brokersalliance.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

news.brokersalliance.com SEO score

87

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 News.brokersalliance.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 News.brokersalliance.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

news.brokersalliance.com

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