Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

home.personalcapital.com

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Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

103 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home.personalcapital.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

home.personalcapital.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.personalcapital.com

193 ms

home.personalcapital.com

320 ms

goHome

81 ms

mobileBrowserDetect.2.js

45 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Home.personalcapital.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to D1q4amq3lgzrzf.cloudfront.net and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source Bh.contextweb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (80%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

301.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Home.personalcapital.com main page is 1.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 981.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 25.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 290 B
  • After minification 259 B

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. Obviously, Home Personal Capital needs image optimization as it can save up to 31 B or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 753.8 kB

  • Original 981.2 kB
  • After minification 901.9 kB
  • After compression 227.5 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 753.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 422.5 kB

  • Original 490.4 kB
  • After minification 421.9 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Home.personalcapital.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 422.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (79%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Personal Capital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

home.personalcapital.com accessibility score

76

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

home.personalcapital.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

SEO Factors

home.personalcapital.com SEO score

83

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Home.personalcapital.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 Home.personalcapital.com 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 Home Personal Capital. 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: