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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

individual.carefirst.com

CareFirst Health Insurance: Medical, Dental & Vision Plans | Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

911 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Individual.carefirst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 12.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

individual.carefirst.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

individual.carefirst.com

66 ms

redirection.jsp

5041 ms

home.page

251 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfghqrux_10295240705110949.js

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Individual.carefirst.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Individual.carefirst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Individual.carefirst.com main page is 3.5 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. 35% 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 83.0 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 12.7 kB, which is 13% 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 83.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Individual Care First images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 283.0 kB

  • Original 418.4 kB
  • After minification 389.7 kB
  • After compression 135.4 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 283.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 923.7 kB
  • After compression 176.8 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. Individual.carefirst.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (58%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Individual Care First. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

individual.carefirst.com

individual.carefirst.com

66 ms

redirection.jsp

redirection.jsp

5041 ms

home.page

home.page

251 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfghqrux_10295240705110949.js

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfghqrux_10295240705110949.js

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

123 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

179 ms

styles.css

styles.css

101 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

65 ms

megamenu.css

megamenu.css

77 ms

print.css

print.css

85 ms

additions.css

additions.css

161 ms

fa-v4-v5.css

fa-v4-v5.css

121 ms

fa-all.css

fa-all.css

221 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

158 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

157 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

165 ms

hammer.min.js

hammer.min.js

200 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

194 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

218 ms

application.js

application.js

201 ms

responsive.app.js

responsive.app.js

230 ms

login-prospect.js

login-prospect.js

230 ms

prospect.js

prospect.js

236 ms

optimost.js

optimost.js

237 ms

GDPR-cookie-consent-message-1.js

GDPR-cookie-consent-message-1.js

264 ms

siteimprove.js

siteimprove.js

253 ms

fixes.js

fixes.js

287 ms

redirection.jsp

redirection.jsp

5044 ms

home.page

home.page

260 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

83 ms

customer.global.js

customer.global.js

288 ms

collect

collect

69 ms

js

js

32 ms

logo-carefirst.svg

logo-carefirst.svg

58 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

60 ms

utility-icon.png

utility-icon.png

41 ms

print-icon.png

print-icon.png

41 ms

CareFirst_WithCare_3125x994-opt.jpg

CareFirst_WithCare_3125x994-opt.jpg

259 ms

closeknit-logo.png

closeknit-logo.png

39 ms

Telephone-icon-blue.svg

Telephone-icon-blue.svg

71 ms

closeknit-modal-image3.jpg

closeknit-modal-image3.jpg

124 ms

carefirst_logo_white.svg

carefirst_logo_white.svg

76 ms

wme-logo-white.svg

wme-logo-white.svg

114 ms

facebook-icon-white.png

facebook-icon-white.png

81 ms

twitter-icon-white.png

twitter-icon-white.png

123 ms

youtube-icon-white.png

youtube-icon-white.png

123 ms

linkedin-icon-white.png

linkedin-icon-white.png

124 ms

instagram-icon-white.png

instagram-icon-white.png

128 ms

open-sans-v14-latin-regular.woff

open-sans-v14-latin-regular.woff

179 ms

open-sans-v14-latin-700.woff

open-sans-v14-latin-700.woff

179 ms

oswald-v24-latin-regular.woff

oswald-v24-latin-regular.woff

123 ms

oswald-v24-latin-300.woff

oswald-v24-latin-300.woff

169 ms

oswald-v24-latin-700.woff

oswald-v24-latin-700.woff

170 ms

about-us-background.jpg

about-us-background.jpg

169 ms

47 ms

54 ms

48 ms

Accessibility Review

individual.carefirst.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

individual.carefirst.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

individual.carefirst.com SEO score

81

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

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

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 Individual.carefirst.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 Individual.carefirst.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

individual.carefirst.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Individual Care First. 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: