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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

lifecover.ca

Canadian Life Insurance Quotes

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

328 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lifecover.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 2.1 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

lifecover.ca performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lifecover.ca

204 ms

www.lifecover.ca

331 ms

221 ms

jquery162.js

301 ms

modernizr.min.js

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Lifecover.ca, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (906 ms) belongs to the original domain Lifecover.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.5 kB (33%)

Content Size

662.0 kB

After Optimization

444.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lifecover.ca main page is 662.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 334.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 4.7 kB, which is 15% 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 25.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 334.1 kB
  • After minification 325.2 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. Life Cover images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 150.2 kB

  • Original 257.2 kB
  • After minification 248.0 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 150.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Lifecover.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (53%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Life Cover. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lifecover.ca

lifecover.ca

204 ms

www.lifecover.ca

www.lifecover.ca

331 ms

221 ms

jquery162.js

jquery162.js

301 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

209 ms

style.css

style.css

209 ms

slicknav.css

slicknav.css

210 ms

mobilemenu.css

mobilemenu.css

210 ms

style-responsive.css

style-responsive.css

337 ms

brand

brand

18 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

486 ms

jquery.slicknav.js

jquery.slicknav.js

351 ms

html5.js

html5.js

20 ms

counter.js

counter.js

18 ms

brand

brand

54 ms

148 ms

114 ms

ga.js

ga.js

52 ms

bodybkg.gif

bodybkg.gif

94 ms

mainbkgnew.gif

mainbkgnew.gif

95 ms

skybkgblur.jpg

skybkgblur.jpg

282 ms

newlogo.png

newlogo.png

210 ms

canadianlifeinsurancequotes.png

canadianlifeinsurancequotes.png

210 ms

homeformgetquotebut.png

homeformgetquotebut.png

211 ms

heart.gif

heart.gif

237 ms

getquotesmallgreen.gif

getquotesmallgreen.gif

282 ms

boxes.gif

boxes.gif

282 ms

phone.gif

phone.gif

285 ms

requestcallbut.gif

requestcallbut.gif

289 ms

largestartquotebut.gif

largestartquotebut.gif

324 ms

books.gif

books.gif

371 ms

biglock.gif

biglock.gif

372 ms

family.png

family.png

906 ms

formbkggrad.png

formbkggrad.png

358 ms

licheck.gif

licheck.gif

363 ms

littlegreysquare.gif

littlegreysquare.gif

398 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

t.php

t.php

143 ms

mobilelogo.jpg

mobilelogo.jpg

258 ms

Accessibility Review

lifecover.ca accessibility score

80

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lifecover.ca best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

lifecover.ca SEO score

50

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Lifecover.ca 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 Lifecover.ca 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

lifecover.ca

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