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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

chooseexcellus.com

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield - Everybody Benefits

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chooseexcellus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 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

chooseexcellus.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chooseexcellus.com

15 ms

www.chooseexcellus.com

979 ms

css

44 ms

css

54 ms

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Chooseexcellus.com, 28% (23 requests) were made to Iuploads.scribblecdn.net and 12% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (979 ms) belongs to the original domain Chooseexcellus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 299.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chooseexcellus.com 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 982.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 138.1 kB

  • Original 173.2 kB
  • After minification 170.4 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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 138.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 126.7 kB

  • Original 982.3 kB
  • After minification 855.5 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. Obviously, Choose Excellus needs image optimization as it can save up to 126.7 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 256.6 kB
  • After minification 256.6 kB
  • After compression 222.2 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 34.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 284 B

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 80.4 kB
  • After compression 80.3 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. Chooseexcellus.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (65%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choose Excellus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chooseexcellus.com

chooseexcellus.com

15 ms

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Accessibility Review

chooseexcellus.com accessibility score

84

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

[role] values are not valid

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

chooseexcellus.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

chooseexcellus.com SEO score

83

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