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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

89 ms

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About Website

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iBenefitCenter is your secure benefits management website. Review and change your benefits, use tools and calculators, access plan information, and more. iBenefitsCenter is administered by Mercer.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 2.2 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

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com

305 ms

Home.tpz

794 ms

Outage.tpz

316 ms

1.GEO.css

62 ms

2.GEO.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Ibenefitcenter2.mercerhrs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (794 ms) belongs to the original domain Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.5 kB (86%)

Content Size

490.4 kB

After Optimization

69.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com main page is 490.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 451.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 2.9 kB, which is 16% 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 13.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 6.3 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, Auth Mercerbenefitscentral needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 8.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 393.8 kB

  • Original 451.4 kB
  • After minification 407.7 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 393.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (48%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auth Mercerbenefitscentral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com

305 ms

Home.tpz

Home.tpz

794 ms

Outage.tpz

Outage.tpz

316 ms

1.GEO.css

1.GEO.css

62 ms

2.GEO.css

2.GEO.css

93 ms

Floating.css

Floating.css

51 ms

FloatingMBC.css

FloatingMBC.css

53 ms

IBCAddOnForMBC1.css

IBCAddOnForMBC1.css

52 ms

MBC.css

MBC.css

70 ms

mbc.outage.css

mbc.outage.css

71 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

71 ms

BlankClientLogo.gif

BlankClientLogo.gif

310 ms

geo_edge_left.gif

geo_edge_left.gif

24 ms

geo_edge_right.gif

geo_edge_right.gif

24 ms

geo_topNav_bg.gif

geo_topNav_bg.gif

26 ms

contact_us_blue_nobar.jpg

contact_us_blue_nobar.jpg

25 ms

contactus_tl.gif

contactus_tl.gif

23 ms

icon_contactus_blue.gif

icon_contactus_blue.gif

26 ms

contactus_bl.gif

contactus_bl.gif

41 ms

contactus_br.gif

contactus_br.gif

44 ms

IconCritical.gif

IconCritical.gif

42 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

39 ms

geo_edge_bottom_left.gif

geo_edge_bottom_left.gif

44 ms

geo_edge_bottom_right.gif

geo_edge_bottom_right.gif

44 ms

button_primary_selected_left.gif

button_primary_selected_left.gif

60 ms

button_primary_selected_right.gif

button_primary_selected_right.gif

62 ms

button_secondary_selected_left.gif

button_secondary_selected_left.gif

59 ms

button_secondary_selected_right.gif

button_secondary_selected_right.gif

63 ms

button_disabled_left.gif

button_disabled_left.gif

60 ms

button_disabled_right.gif

button_disabled_right.gif

64 ms

proximanova-Reg-webfont.woff

proximanova-Reg-webfont.woff

25 ms

Accessibility Review

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.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

SEO Factors

auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com SEO score

62

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Auth.mercerbenefitscentral.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 description is not detected on the main page of Auth Mercerbenefitscentral. 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: