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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

markelintl.com

International Insurance - Worldwide Wholesale Insurance | Markel

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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About Website

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International insurance which looks after the commercial insurance needs of major businesses. Our understanding of wholesale insurance hones our approach.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Markelintl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

markelintl.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.markelinternational.com

1454 ms

normalize.css

157 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

162 ms

markellayout.css

256 ms

markelstyles.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Markelintl.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Markelinternational.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 625.0 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

416.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Markelintl.com main page is 1.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 436.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 370.1 kB

  • Original 436.6 kB
  • After minification 387.3 kB
  • After compression 66.5 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 49.3 kB, which is 11% 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 370.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 235.4 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. Markel Intl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 190.3 kB

  • Original 294.8 kB
  • After minification 282.3 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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 190.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 70.8 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Markelintl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (34%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Markel Intl. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.markelinternational.com

www.markelinternational.com

1454 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

157 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

162 ms

markellayout.css

markellayout.css

256 ms

markelstyles.css

markelstyles.css

168 ms

jshead.js

jshead.js

169 ms

js.css

js.css

86 ms

pagebg.png

pagebg.png

86 ms

logo-markel.png

logo-markel.png

79 ms

logo-markel-black.png

logo-markel-black.png

80 ms

pageframe.png

pageframe.png

88 ms

redbannerbg.png

redbannerbg.png

88 ms

more-btn-white-arrow.png

more-btn-white-arrow.png

87 ms

Products-and-expertise-main-header.jpg

Products-and-expertise-main-header.jpg

231 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

89 ms

js

js

63 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

93 ms

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

88 ms

jquery.simplyscroll.min.js

jquery.simplyscroll.min.js

162 ms

cookieaccept.js

cookieaccept.js

159 ms

markel.js

markel.js

181 ms

_dmpt.js

_dmpt.js

469 ms

more-btn-grey-arrow-big.png

more-btn-grey-arrow-big.png

169 ms

shade-box-bg.png

shade-box-bg.png

170 ms

market-matters.png

market-matters.png

245 ms

hat-trick-story.jpg

hat-trick-story.jpg

333 ms

Rugby7s-story.jpg

Rugby7s-story.jpg

253 ms

colombia-story.jpg

colombia-story.jpg

328 ms

insuranceact-story.jpg

insuranceact-story.jpg

333 ms

durham-story.jpg

durham-story.jpg

298 ms

tradematters.gif

tradematters.gif

331 ms

Walkie-Talkie-sml.jpg

Walkie-Talkie-sml.jpg

337 ms

cyber-sml.jpg

cyber-sml.jpg

381 ms

Cover%20story%20image%20BLiS(80x187).jpg

Cover%20story%20image%20BLiS(80x187).jpg

411 ms

colombia-web.jpg

colombia-web.jpg

421 ms

BLiS_video(80x187).jpg

BLiS_video(80x187).jpg

419 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

433 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

markelprint.css

markelprint.css

81 ms

CookieControl.aspx

CookieControl.aspx

96 ms

slider-left.png

slider-left.png

85 ms

slider-right.png

slider-right.png

81 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

CookieControl.aspx

CookieControl.aspx

82 ms

cookieclose.png

cookieclose.png

87 ms

Accessibility Review

markelintl.com accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

markelintl.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

markelintl.com SEO score

93

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

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 Markelintl.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 Markelintl.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

markelintl.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Markel Intl. 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: