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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil

MyArmyBenefits | The Official Army Benefits Website

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

507 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil page load time and found that the first response time was 507 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.777

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil

507 ms

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil

366 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

js

78 ms

js

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil, 10% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (604 ms) belongs to the original domain Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil main page is 2.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 46.7 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.2 kB, which is 13% 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 42.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 154.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. My Army Benefits Us images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 124.7 kB
  • After minification 124.7 kB
  • After compression 113.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (40%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Army Benefits Us. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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507 ms

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366 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

58 ms

js

js

78 ms

js

js

181 ms

zebra_datepicker.min.css

zebra_datepicker.min.css

66 ms

styles_a.css

styles_a.css

259 ms

in.js

in.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

381 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

225 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

289 ms

flashobject.js

flashobject.js

229 ms

slick.js

slick.js

376 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

483 ms

tooltipster.bundle.min.js

tooltipster.bundle.min.js

378 ms

datepicker.js

datepicker.js

377 ms

zebra_datepicker.min.js

zebra_datepicker.min.js

375 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

jquery.blockUI.js

429 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

428 ms

js

js

108 ms

js

js

41 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

136 ms

logo.png

logo.png

248 ms

MAB_banner3.png

MAB_banner3.png

325 ms

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mab_trans_mobile.png

244 ms

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MAB-slide1-FBlink_3Feb2022.png

591 ms

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278 ms

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326 ms

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327 ms

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i_cal_50.png

330 ms

i_fam_50.png

i_fam_50.png

328 ms

i_ring_50.png

i_ring_50.png

328 ms

ArmyBenefitsCtr_CHRA_icon.JPG

ArmyBenefitsCtr_CHRA_icon.JPG

339 ms

video_mab_benefits.png

video_mab_benefits.png

351 ms

video_library.png

video_library.png

537 ms

video_calculator.png

video_calculator.png

604 ms

contact.jpg

contact.jpg

376 ms

news.jpg

news.jpg

414 ms

seal.png

seal.png

410 ms

collect

collect

120 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

138 ms

body_bg.jpg

body_bg.jpg

523 ms

head_bg.jpg

head_bg.jpg

399 ms

maintopbgshim.jpg

maintopbgshim.jpg

402 ms

shade.gif

shade.gif

450 ms

right_bg.jpg

right_bg.jpg

448 ms

collect

collect

42 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

415 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

135 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

15 ms

slider_prev.png

slider_prev.png

240 ms

slider_next.png

slider_next.png

262 ms

Accessibility Review

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

myarmybenefits.us.army.mil SEO score

89

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

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 Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil 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 Myarmybenefits.us.army.mil 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 My Army Benefits Us. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: