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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

military.com

Military and Veteran Benefits, News, Veteran Jobs | Military.com

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

589 ms

About Website

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

Military.com helps millions of military-connected Americans access military and veteran benefits and news, find jobs and enjoy military discounts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Military.com page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 2 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

military.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

military.com

131 ms

www.military.com

427 ms

otSDKStub.js

94 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

93 ms

ebx.js

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Military.com, 15% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Images03.military.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (427 ms) belongs to the original domain Military.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.1 kB (48%)

Content Size

616.2 kB

After Optimization

318.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Military.com main page is 616.2 kB. 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. HTML takes 346.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 297.1 kB

  • Original 346.3 kB
  • After minification 311.1 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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 297.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.6 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. Military images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 438 B

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 215.4 kB
  • After compression 214.9 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 488 B

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. Military.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Military. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

military.com accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

military.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

military.com SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Military.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 Military.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 Military. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: