Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

nationwide.com

Insurance and Financial Services Company – Nationwide

Page Load Speed

64.2 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

55.5 sec

Page Rendered

8.5 sec

nationwide.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Nationwide content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nationwide.com

Nationwide offers insurance, retirement and investing products that protect your many sides. Get home and auto insurance quotes online or find a local agent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationwide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 64 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationwide.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value25,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationwide.com

184 ms

www.nationwide.com

622 ms

nw-styles.css

3769 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

3767 ms

Bootstrap.js

5775 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Nationwide.com, 20% (19 requests) were made to Static.nationwide.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.3 sec) relates to the external source T.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

995.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationwide.com main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 110.3 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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. 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 87.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 447.2 kB
  • After minification 442.0 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. Nationwide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 913.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 433.7 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 913.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 439.7 kB

  • Original 527.2 kB
  • After minification 518.2 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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. Nationwide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 439.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (75%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nationwide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationwide.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

nationwide.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationwide.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 Nationwide.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 Nationwide.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 Nationwide. 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: