Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

helvetia.ch

Insurance and pensions for private customers | Helvetia.ch

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

928 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

helvetia.ch screenshot

About Website

Visit helvetia.ch now to see the best up-to-date Helvetia content for Austria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about helvetia.ch

With Helvetia Insurance Switzerland, you’re sure to find your insurance and pension solution. There for you for over 160 years. Over 1.3 million customers have placed their trust in us.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helvetia.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helvetia.ch performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

helvetia.ch

42 ms

private-customers.html

144 ms

launch-1741fb5ed52f.min.js

145 ms

clientlib.min.28d32b0ef68f7b180b82af84d2a45708.css

15 ms

clientlib.min.e68366a0235819d0473560119979395d.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Helvetia.ch, 67% (26 requests) were made to Helvetia.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (239 ms) relates to the external source Helvetia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (77%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

854.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Helvetia.ch main page is 3.7 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. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 355.2 kB

  • Original 382.8 kB
  • After minification 338.2 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 44.6 kB, which is 12% 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 355.2 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 114.9 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. Helvetia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 486.6 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 1.5 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 225.3 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. Helvetia.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (19%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helvetia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

helvetia.ch accessibility score

89

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

helvetia.ch 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

helvetia.ch SEO score

84

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 Helvetia.ch 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 Helvetia.ch 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

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