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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

alcova.com

Home - ALCOVA Mortgage

Page Load Speed

846 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

607 ms

Page Rendered

197 ms

About Website

Welcome to alcova.com homepage info - get ready to check ALCOVA best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about alcova.com

ALCOVA Mortgage is a residential mortgage lender offering home purchase and mortgage refinancing assistance and buyer education resources and tools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcova.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 804 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alcova.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.011

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcova.com

42 ms

alcova.com

47 ms

js

70 ms

fbevents.js

22 ms

entalcova0bd86984344d34b9d80d2261.js

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Alcova.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (216 ms) relates to the external source Embed.clix.ly.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcova.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. 80% 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. Images take 881.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 86.6 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. 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 86.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 881.9 kB
  • After minification 881.9 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. ALCOVA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 256.3 kB
  • After minification 256.2 kB
  • After compression 253.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 211.0 kB
  • After minification 211.0 kB
  • After compression 201.0 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. Alcova.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (69%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALCOVA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alcova.com accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alcova.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

alcova.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Alcova.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 Alcova.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 data is detected on the main page of ALCOVA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: