Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

manhattanlife.com

ManhattanLife | Life Insurance, Annuity, and Supplemental Health Insurance

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

manhattanlife.com screenshot

About Website

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

Since our founding in 1850, ManhattanLife has been a trusted provider of a full range of insurance and annuity products for individuals & families, seniors, and employers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Manhattanlife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 2.3 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

manhattanlife.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

manhattanlife.com

73 ms

www.manhattanlife.com

71 ms

www.manhattanlife.com

653 ms

default.css

214 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Manhattanlife.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (767 ms) belongs to the original domain Manhattanlife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (34%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Manhattanlife.com main page is 5.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 138.8 kB

  • Original 255.8 kB
  • After minification 229.2 kB
  • After compression 117.0 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. 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 138.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 153.9 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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. Manhattan Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 360.4 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 1.4 MB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 299.3 kB

  • Original 344.0 kB
  • After minification 251.8 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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. Manhattanlife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 299.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (55%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Manhattan Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

manhattanlife.com accessibility score

81

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

manhattanlife.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

manhattanlife.com SEO score

69

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Manhattanlife.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 Manhattanlife.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 description is not detected on the main page of Manhattan Life. 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: