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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mybenefits.ny.gov

myBenefits

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

762 ms

Page Rendered

221 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mybenefits.ny.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 983 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mybenefits.ny.gov performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.205

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mybenefits.ny.gov

57 ms

begin

88 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NVfqrux_10291240606133530.js

70 ms

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43 ms

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50 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Mybenefits.ny.gov, 38% (19 requests) were made to Static-assets.ny.gov and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) belongs to the original domain Mybenefits.ny.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 377.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

716.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mybenefits.ny.gov main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 553.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 5.6 kB, which is 14% 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 32.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 553.4 kB
  • After minification 519.8 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. MyBenefits Ny images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 190.6 kB

  • Original 346.2 kB
  • After minification 339.2 kB
  • After compression 155.6 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 190.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 132.2 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Mybenefits.ny.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MyBenefits Ny. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mybenefits.ny.gov

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57 ms

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127 ms

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Accessibility Review

mybenefits.ny.gov accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mybenefits.ny.gov best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mybenefits.ny.gov SEO score

83

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mybenefits.ny.gov 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 Mybenefits.ny.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

mybenefits.ny.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MyBenefits Ny. 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: