Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

iowachase.com

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Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

501 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iowachase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 501 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iowachase.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.399

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.iowachase.com

501 ms

css

38 ms

css

58 ms

css

63 ms

tubepress.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Iowachase.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Iowachase.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (57%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

775.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Iowachase.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 890.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 58.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 301.5 kB
  • After minification 300.3 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. Iowa Chase images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 528.9 kB

  • Original 890.4 kB
  • After minification 888.9 kB
  • After compression 361.5 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 528.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 449.5 kB

  • Original 542.1 kB
  • After minification 530.5 kB
  • After compression 92.6 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. Iowachase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 449.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (78%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa Chase. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iowachase.com accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

iowachase.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

iowachase.com SEO score

92

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iowachase.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 Iowachase.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 Iowa Chase. 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: