Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

medicare.highmark.com

Highmark Medicare | Learn Shop & Enroll | Medicare Solutions

Page Load Speed

792 ms in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

561 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicare.highmark.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 754 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicare.highmark.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicare.highmark.com

38 ms

home

44 ms

iaj7yko.css

42 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICANVdfghjqrux_10291240606133530.js

54 ms

styles.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Medicare.highmark.com, 16% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 13% (6 requests) were made to Shopxcdn.hmhs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) belongs to the original domain Medicare.highmark.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 724.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Medicare.highmark.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 12.9 kB, which is 23% 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 48.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 342.9 kB
  • After minification 315.2 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. Medicare Highmark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 169.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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

-89%

Potential reduce by 479.3 kB

  • Original 538.5 kB
  • After minification 533.2 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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. Medicare.highmark.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 479.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (35%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medicare Highmark. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medicare.highmark.com accessibility score

88

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

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

medicare.highmark.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

medicare.highmark.com SEO score

90

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

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 Medicare.highmark.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 Medicare.highmark.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

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