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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blog.geico.com

GEICO Living: Articles, Tips, Fun Facts, and More | GEICO Living

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

709 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

Welcome to blog.geico.com homepage info - get ready to check Blog GEICO best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about blog.geico.com

GEICO is more than just car insurance. Find articles here on driving care and safety, home improvement, investing tips, GEICO commercials, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.geico.com page load time and found that the first response time was 709 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.geico.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

709 ms

cache-base-css.php

141 ms

cache-base-js.php

120 ms

global.js

36 ms

homepage.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.geico.com, 16% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (3 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 Geico.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.geico.com main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.2 kB, which is 22% 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 79.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.4 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. Blog GEICO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 171.7 kB
  • After minification 171.7 kB
  • After compression 119.2 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 52.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 309.8 kB

  • Original 366.7 kB
  • After minification 366.5 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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. Blog.geico.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 309.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (39%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog GEICO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

709 ms

cache-base-css.php

cache-base-css.php

141 ms

cache-base-js.php

cache-base-js.php

120 ms

global.js

global.js

36 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

32 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

55 ms

uamLoginForm.css

uamLoginForm.css

53 ms

wpProQuiz_front.min.css

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54 ms

style.css

style.css

112 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

117 ms

frontend-checklist.js

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115 ms

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1120 ms

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830 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

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580 ms

cache-index.php

cache-index.php

1600 ms

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1569 ms

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logo-horizontal.png

380 ms

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395 ms

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393 ms

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398 ms

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1500 ms

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393 ms

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396 ms

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397 ms

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432 ms

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404 ms

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406 ms

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399 ms

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442 ms

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443 ms

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1498 ms

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443 ms

GEICOMore_NightDriving_RF_97220267_600x400.jpg

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450 ms

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450 ms

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451 ms

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1083 ms

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1079 ms

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1080 ms

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1080 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

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834 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

272 ms

www-embed-player.js

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232 ms

base.js

base.js

233 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

232 ms

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330 ms

css

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427 ms

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312 ms

rd

rd

170 ms

NuTpvCjg

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217 ms

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137 ms

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409 ms

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373 ms

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422 ms

base.js

base.js

554 ms

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363 ms

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71 ms

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217 ms

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203 ms

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186 ms

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1113 ms

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906 ms

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167 ms

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129 ms

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67 ms

Create

Create

540 ms

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logo-horizontal_blue.png

35 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.geico.com accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.geico.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.geico.com SEO score

100

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

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 Blog.geico.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 Blog.geico.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

blog.geico.com

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