Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

auth.nationallife.com

Life Insurance | Financial Services | Retirement Planning | National Life Group

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

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About Website

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National Life Group offers life insurance, annuity and investment products to help individuals, families and businesses pursue their financial goals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Auth.nationallife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

auth.nationallife.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

auth.nationallife.com

129 ms

auth.nationallife.com

156 ms

www.nationallife.com

325 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

15 ms

bootstrap.min.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Auth.nationallife.com, 90% (46 requests) were made to Nationallife.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) relates to the external source Nationallife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 948.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Auth.nationallife.com main page is 2.2 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. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 110.6 kB
  • After minification 99.3 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 80.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 385.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 930.5 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. Obviously, Auth National Life needs image optimization as it can save up to 385.4 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 282.5 kB

  • Original 511.1 kB
  • After minification 501.7 kB
  • After compression 228.6 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 282.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 199.6 kB

  • Original 249.0 kB
  • After minification 192.4 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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. Auth.nationallife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (59%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auth National Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

auth.nationallife.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

auth.nationallife.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

auth.nationallife.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Auth.nationallife.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 Auth.nationallife.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 description is not detected on the main page of Auth National Life. 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: