Tools & Wizards About Us
aflac.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

aflac.com

Aflac | America’s Most Recognized Supplemental Insurance Company

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

918 ms

Page Rendered

216 ms

aflac.com screenshot

About Website

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

Aflac provides supplemental insurance to help pay out-of-pocket expenses your major medical insurance doesn't cover. Get started with a quote today!

Visit aflac.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Aflac.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aflac.com performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.aflac.com

59 ms

master.css

15 ms

master_cp.css

57 ms

jquery.min.js

80 ms

ziplookup.jquery.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Aflac.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (148 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (58%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aflac.com main page is 2.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 968.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. 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 15.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 721.3 kB
  • After minification 716.9 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. Aflac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 637.0 kB

  • Original 968.6 kB
  • After minification 957.4 kB
  • After compression 331.6 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 637.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 875.5 kB

  • Original 942.6 kB
  • After minification 598.9 kB
  • After compression 67.0 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. Aflac.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 875.5 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (51%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aflac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.aflac.com

www.aflac.com

59 ms

master.css

master.css

15 ms

master_cp.css

master_cp.css

57 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

80 ms

ziplookup.jquery.js

ziplookup.jquery.js

79 ms

require.js

require.js

79 ms

player_api

player_api

148 ms

3f36cd2b-67e6-452e-b3cb-f982243fa714

3f36cd2b-67e6-452e-b3cb-f982243fa714

146 ms

common.js

common.js

9 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

109 ms

utag.js

utag.js

49 ms

sprites-s2262a3876c.png

sprites-s2262a3876c.png

9 ms

a1c9c2f9-02d7-414f-a67e-93f3ed9c7837

a1c9c2f9-02d7-414f-a67e-93f3ed9c7837

23 ms

sprites-sfd5c0480fb.png

sprites-sfd5c0480fb.png

19 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

19 ms

blue_noise.jpg

blue_noise.jpg

18 ms

icons-s133efd3706.png

icons-s133efd3706.png

18 ms

footer-facebook.png

footer-facebook.png

17 ms

footer-twitter.png

footer-twitter.png

20 ms

footer-gplus.png

footer-gplus.png

19 ms

footer-linkedin.png

footer-linkedin.png

21 ms

footer-instagram.png

footer-instagram.png

20 ms

footer-youtube.png

footer-youtube.png

21 ms

sprites-s89a37d4bd6.png

sprites-s89a37d4bd6.png

39 ms

main-require.js

main-require.js

40 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

19 ms

proxima_nova_reg-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_reg-webfont.woff

11 ms

proxima_nova_thin-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_thin-webfont.woff

11 ms

proxima_nova_bold-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_bold-webfont.woff

12 ms

proxima_nova_light-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_light-webfont.woff

12 ms

proxima_nova_sbold-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_sbold-webfont.woff

11 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

48 ms

utag.2.js

utag.2.js

19 ms

utag.16.js

utag.16.js

41 ms

utag.22.js

utag.22.js

40 ms

utag.24.js

utag.24.js

39 ms

individuals.jpg

individuals.jpg

23 ms

duck_1.png

duck_1.png

13 ms

employers.jpg

employers.jpg

34 ms

duck_2.png

duck_2.png

14 ms

brokers.jpg

brokers.jpg

47 ms

duck_4.png

duck_4.png

13 ms

agents.jpg

agents.jpg

34 ms

duck_3.png

duck_3.png

22 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

controltag

controltag

103 ms

activityi;src=2892239;type=homex0;cat=aflac0;ord=7045588758774.102

activityi;src=2892239;type=homex0;cat=aflac0;ord=7045588758774.102

59 ms

collect

collect

19 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

redirect

redirect

83 ms

controltag.js.3269b976cac0388f80dbfdb09d96a4e7

controltag.js.3269b976cac0388f80dbfdb09d96a4e7

62 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

50 ms

Pix-1x1.gif

Pix-1x1.gif

44 ms

iu3

iu3

35 ms

chip=d46bdc90af140132f2a00024e87a30c2.gif

chip=d46bdc90af140132f2a00024e87a30c2.gif

148 ms

generic

generic

31 ms

pixel

pixel

32 ms

google

google

8 ms

generic

generic

8 ms

demconf.jpg

demconf.jpg

6 ms

match

match

4 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

optout_check

optout_check

32 ms

SEO Factors

aflac.com SEO score

0

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 Aflac.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 Aflac.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

aflac.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Aflac. 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: