Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

banklowcountry.com

Bank of the Lowcountry | Walterboro & Mt. Pleasant, SC | Your Local Bank

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

701 ms

About Website

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Bank of the Lowcountry is the local bank of the communities it serves and we are committed to provide personal, prompt, efficient service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Banklowcountry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

banklowcountry.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.443

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.banklowcountry.org

143 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

135 ms

jquery-ui.js

184 ms

all.css

208 ms

03464ed8bf.js

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Banklowcountry.com, 20% (18 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com and 16% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (651 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Banklowcountry.com main page is 3.8 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. 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 140.4 kB

  • Original 169.8 kB
  • After minification 149.6 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 20.3 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 140.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

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. Bank Lowcountry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-9%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Banklowcountry.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (70%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bank Lowcountry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

banklowcountry.com accessibility score

86

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

banklowcountry.com best practices score

83

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

banklowcountry.com SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Banklowcountry.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 Banklowcountry.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 Bank Lowcountry. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: