Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

business.bofa.com

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is Now Bank of America & BofA Securities

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

868 ms

Page Rendered

575 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Business BofA content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about business.bofa.com

Bank of America and BofA Securities (formerly Bank of America Merrill Lynch) provide global perspectives, comprehensive solutions and strategic guidance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Business.bofa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 1.4 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

business.bofa.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

business.bofa.com

117 ms

business.bofa.com

40 ms

home.html

260 ms

utag.sync.js

51 ms

clientlib-global.min.css

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Business.bofa.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to and 2% (1 request) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (327 ms) relates to the external source Cdnapisec.kaltura.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Business.bofa.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 162.1 kB

  • Original 193.1 kB
  • After minification 193.1 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 162.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Business BofA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.7 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (26%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business BofA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

business.bofa.com accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

SEO Factors

business.bofa.com SEO score

93

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

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 Business.bofa.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 Business.bofa.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 Business BofA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: