Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

firstcu.net

Home Page - First Credit Union

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

firstcu.net screenshot

About Website

Visit firstcu.net now to see the best up-to-date First Cu content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firstcu.net

First Credit Union is not-for-profit. We’re owned by our members, not shareholders. First Credit Union was established in Arizona in 1929.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstcu.net page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstcu.net performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstcu.net

124 ms

firstcu.net

391 ms

global.css

61 ms

external.js

119 ms

jquery.min.js

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Firstcu.net, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (447 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstcu.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

963.9 kB

After Optimization

799.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstcu.net main page is 963.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 793.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 2.3 kB, which is 12% 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 13.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 793.0 kB
  • After minification 740.1 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. First Cu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 75.8 kB

  • Original 125.3 kB
  • After minification 109.1 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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 75.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Firstcu.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (25%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Cu. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstcu.net accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firstcu.net 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

firstcu.net SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstcu.net 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 Firstcu.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of First Cu. 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: