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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

militaryrates.com

Military Pay Charts, Rates, Guidelines, and Articles

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

militaryrates.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Militaryrates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

militaryrates.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,980 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

militaryrates.com

119 ms

www.militaryrates.com

551 ms

global.css

68 ms

css

22 ms

jquery.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Militaryrates.com, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (551 ms) belongs to the original domain Militaryrates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

285.8 kB

After Optimization

179.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Militaryrates.com main page is 285.8 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 123.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 3.1 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 19.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 120.2 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. Military Rates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 119.9 kB
  • After compression 50.2 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 73.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Militaryrates.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Military Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

militaryrates.com

militaryrates.com

119 ms

www.militaryrates.com

www.militaryrates.com

551 ms

global.css

global.css

68 ms

css

css

22 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

144 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

71 ms

global.js

global.js

104 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

66 ms

quant.js

quant.js

64 ms

logo-militaryrates.gif

logo-militaryrates.gif

45 ms

bg-21a.gif

bg-21a.gif

47 ms

logo-mh140.gif

logo-mh140.gif

81 ms

bg-22.gif

bg-22.gif

47 ms

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valoans-140x28.png

80 ms

getinfo75.gif

getinfo75.gif

84 ms

left-pay.gif

left-pay.gif

86 ms

star-nav3.gif

star-nav3.gif

153 ms

left-gibill.gif

left-gibill.gif

84 ms

left-discounts.gif

left-discounts.gif

112 ms

left-valoan.gif

left-valoan.gif

111 ms

left-bases.gif

left-bases.gif

120 ms

left-news.gif

left-news.gif

122 ms

home-pay-year.gif

home-pay-year.gif

121 ms

home-gibill.gif

home-gibill.gif

144 ms

home-discounts.gif

home-discounts.gif

178 ms

home-bases.gif

home-bases.gif

156 ms

home-calc.gif

home-calc.gif

158 ms

QB-340x200.png

QB-340x200.png

228 ms

title-home-featured.gif

title-home-featured.gif

257 ms

logo-footer.gif

logo-footer.gif

258 ms

bg-footerflag3.gif

bg-footerflag3.gif

225 ms

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53 ms

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74 ms

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54 ms

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17 ms

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24 ms

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61 ms

Accessibility Review

militaryrates.com accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

militaryrates.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

militaryrates.com SEO score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    LL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Militaryrates.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Militaryrates.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

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