Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

natl.com

An Insurance Experience Built Around You - National Interstate Insurance

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

704 ms

Page Rendered

11.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Natl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 12.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

natl.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

natl.com

272 ms

polyfill.min.js

4 ms

gjt0xif.css

27 ms

main.css

11 ms

ScriptResource.axd

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Natl.com, 16% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) belongs to the original domain Natl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (4%)

Content Size

29.3 MB

After Optimization

28.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Natl.com main page is 29.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 28.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 401.7 kB

  • Original 531.8 kB
  • After minification 522.8 kB
  • After compression 130.1 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 401.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 827.7 kB

  • Original 28.7 MB
  • After minification 27.8 MB

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. Natl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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 10.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Natl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (30%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

natl.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

natl.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

natl.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Natl.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 Natl.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 Natl. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: