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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

greatnorthernbenefits.com

Home | Great Northern Benefits

Page Load Speed

595 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

422 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

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Great Northern Benefits is a comprehensive insurance agency specializing in employee benefits for small and large companies in Michigan and Ohio. We specialize in health care coverage, dental insuranc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatnorthernbenefits.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 522 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatnorthernbenefits.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatnorthernbenefits.com

73 ms

www.greatnorthernbenefits.com

125 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

23 ms

javascripts.js

42 ms

p7PMMscripts.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Greatnorthernbenefits.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (151 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatnorthernbenefits.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

156.6 kB

After Optimization

142.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatnorthernbenefits.com main page is 156.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 71.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 17% 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 8.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 70.8 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. Great Northern Benefits images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 71.6 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 338 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Greatnorthernbenefits.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 338 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Northern Benefits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greatnorthernbenefits.com

greatnorthernbenefits.com

73 ms

www.greatnorthernbenefits.com

www.greatnorthernbenefits.com

125 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

23 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

42 ms

p7PMMscripts.js

p7PMMscripts.js

46 ms

css

css

77 ms

p7pmm

p7pmm

58 ms

underscore-min.js

underscore-min.js

47 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

83 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.js

70 ms

showImage.js

showImage.js

68 ms

homerotation.js

homerotation.js

151 ms

fadeslideshow.js

fadeslideshow.js

96 ms

ga.js

ga.js

36 ms

headerbg_fade.png

headerbg_fade.png

27 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

27 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

29 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

27 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

28 ms

bttmright.jpg

bttmright.jpg

37 ms

navbg_gloss.png

navbg_gloss.png

44 ms

header_1.jpg

header_1.jpg

69 ms

contentBgTop.png

contentBgTop.png

45 ms

contentBg.gif

contentBg.gif

53 ms

catamaran.JPG

catamaran.JPG

51 ms

navbg_gloss_litearrow_east.png

navbg_gloss_litearrow_east.png

59 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

greatnorthernbenefits.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

greatnorthernbenefits.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

greatnorthernbenefits.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greatnorthernbenefits.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Greatnorthernbenefits.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

greatnorthernbenefits.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great Northern Benefits. 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: