Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thehartford.com

Business, Home & Car Insurance Quotes | The Hartford Insurance

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

3.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehartford.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.9 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehartford.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

3904 ms

ie.css

139 ms

screen.min.css

112 ms

font-awesome.min.css

169 ms

modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Thehartford.com, 21% (9 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehartford.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (66%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

640.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Thehartford.com main page is 1.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 73.8 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.8 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 73.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 226.8 kB
  • After minification 203.8 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. The Hartford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 733.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 341.9 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 733.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 407.1 kB

  • Original 489.3 kB
  • After minification 449.8 kB
  • After compression 82.2 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. Thehartford.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (59%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hartford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehartford.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thehartford.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thehartford.com SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thehartford.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 Thehartford.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 The Hartford. 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: