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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

chooseconfidently.com

For employers: Employee engagement toolkits | BCBSM

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

946 ms

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Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield plan employers, find employee engagement support with toolkits that include flyers, templates for letters, emails and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chooseconfidently.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 3.9 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

chooseconfidently.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,940 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chooseconfidently.com

141 ms

283 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

778 ms

launch-ce1a51e3f2fd.min.js

78 ms

contexthub

238 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Chooseconfidently.com, 50% (20 requests) were made to Bcbsm.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to Gateway.foresee.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Bcbsm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 310.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

603.7 kB

After Optimization

293.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chooseconfidently.com main page is 603.7 kB. 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 438.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 86.7 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 28.8 kB, which is 33% 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 75.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 213.2 kB

  • Original 438.0 kB
  • After minification 224.8 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. Obviously, Chooseconfidently needs image optimization as it can save up to 213.2 kB or 49% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 78.6 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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 21.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 347 B
  • After minification 270 B
  • After compression 140 B

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. Chooseconfidently.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207 B or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chooseconfidently. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chooseconfidently.com

chooseconfidently.com

141 ms

283 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

clientlib-base.min.css

778 ms

launch-ce1a51e3f2fd.min.js

launch-ce1a51e3f2fd.min.js

78 ms

contexthub

contexthub

238 ms

overRide.css

overRide.css

191 ms

clientlib-base.min.js

clientlib-base.min.js

1512 ms

id

id

94 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

77 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

80 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

125 ms

js

js

215 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0d0wAAAALycfwOj

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0d0wAAAALycfwOj

18 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

66 ms

520 ms

logo.png

logo.png

703 ms

Engagement-Hero-Image.jpg

Engagement-Hero-Image.jpg

745 ms

coronavirus-toolkit.png

coronavirus-toolkit.png

734 ms

open-enrollment-toolkit.png

open-enrollment-toolkit.png

740 ms

behavioral-health-toolkit.png

behavioral-health-toolkit.png

757 ms

online-account-toolkit.png

online-account-toolkit.png

729 ms

bcbsm-bcn-logo-gray.png

bcbsm-bcn-logo-gray.png

730 ms

bbb_logo.png

bbb_logo.png

780 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

699 ms

222 ms

Roboto-Regular.ttf

Roboto-Regular.ttf

375 ms

Roboto-Medium.ttf

Roboto-Medium.ttf

422 ms

Roboto-Light.ttf

Roboto-Light.ttf

482 ms

Roboto-Thin.ttf

Roboto-Thin.ttf

757 ms

Roboto-Bold.ttf

Roboto-Bold.ttf

756 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

342 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

517 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

118 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

13 ms

delivery

delivery

99 ms

gateway.min.js

gateway.min.js

27 ms

mpathy.js

mpathy.js

20 ms

customcode.js

customcode.js

139 ms

fs.utils.js

fs.utils.js

132 ms

fs.compress.js

fs.compress.js

132 ms

Accessibility Review

chooseconfidently.com accessibility score

78

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

chooseconfidently.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

chooseconfidently.com SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

chooseconfidently.com

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