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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

unum.com

Unum Insurance | Disability Insurance | Life Insurance | Financial Protection

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

673 ms

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About Website

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

Unum provides comprehensive financial insurance products to industries of all sizes. Leader in disability insurance, life insurance, compliance and developing HR technology solutions for our clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unum.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.433

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unum.com

90 ms

www.unum.com

274 ms

styles.min.css

86 ms

ga4tracking.js

112 ms

scripts.min.js

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Unum.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 3% (1 request) were made to Sc.pages01.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) belongs to the original domain Unum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Unum.com main page is 4.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 61.4 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 15.0 kB, which is 24% 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 49.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Unum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 201 B

  • Original 277.7 kB
  • After minification 277.7 kB
  • After compression 277.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 492 B

  • Original 74.9 kB
  • After minification 74.9 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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. Unum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (25%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

unum.com

unum.com

90 ms

www.unum.com

www.unum.com

274 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

86 ms

ga4tracking.js

ga4tracking.js

112 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

201 ms

iMAWebCookie.js

iMAWebCookie.js

39 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

39 ms

dnb_coretag_v6.min.js

dnb_coretag_v6.min.js

28 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

30 ms

player.js

player.js

36 ms

css2

css2

42 ms

8b81297a-7b13-447f-bf1f-d7220d13b93f.json

8b81297a-7b13-447f-bf1f-d7220d13b93f.json

62 ms

unumfullcolor2x.ashx

unumfullcolor2x.ashx

32 ms

home-banner-mobile.ashx

home-banner-mobile.ashx

105 ms

auto-panel-innovative-tech.ashx

auto-panel-innovative-tech.ashx

212 ms

auto-panel-people-who-care.ashx

auto-panel-people-who-care.ashx

213 ms

auto-panel-purpose-driven.ashx

auto-panel-purpose-driven.ashx

509 ms

modern-financial-protections.ashx

modern-financial-protections.ashx

285 ms

innovative-leave-solutions.ashx

innovative-leave-solutions.ashx

182 ms

workday.ashx

workday.ashx

137 ms

adp.ashx

adp.ashx

165 ms

ukg.ashx

ukg.ashx

197 ms

simplified-benefits-delivery.ashx

simplified-benefits-delivery.ashx

253 ms

brokers-img.ashx

brokers-img.ashx

285 ms

homepage-1120x630.ashx

homepage-1120x630.ashx

377 ms

Featured-image-800x800.ashx

Featured-image-800x800.ashx

480 ms

Featured-800x800.ashx

Featured-800x800.ashx

401 ms

Featured-image-800x800.ashx

Featured-image-800x800.ashx

434 ms

better-benefits-at-work.ashx

better-benefits-at-work.ashx

319 ms

facebook-dark.ashx

facebook-dark.ashx

353 ms

Linkedin-dark.ashx

Linkedin-dark.ashx

385 ms

download-dark.ashx

download-dark.ashx

409 ms

location

location

35 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

51 ms

font

font

31 ms

Accessibility Review

unum.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

unum.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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

unum.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 Unum.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 Unum.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Unum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: