Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

medicare.org

Trusted Medicare Advantage & Supplement Information | Medicare.org

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

606 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicare.org page load time and found that the first response time was 606 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicare.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicare.org

606 ms

k2.css

17 ms

css

23 ms

44 ms

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Medicare.org, 7% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 714.0 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

808.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Medicare.org main page is 1.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 647.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 78.9 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 19.8 kB, which is 20% 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 83.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 647.5 kB
  • After minification 591.2 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. Medicare images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 414.9 kB

  • Original 595.7 kB
  • After minification 557.5 kB
  • After compression 180.7 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 414.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 131.7 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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. Medicare.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (62%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medicare. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medicare.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

medicare.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

medicare.org SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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