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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

equifax.com

Equifax | Credit Bureau | Check Your Credit Report & Credit Score

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

665 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Equifax.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

equifax.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,390 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

equifax.com

52 ms

www.equifax.com

710 ms

combo

158 ms

clay.css

169 ms

main.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Equifax.com, 55% (59 requests) were made to Assets.equifax.com and 9% (10 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (710 ms) belongs to the original domain Equifax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Equifax.com main page is 1.6 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 811.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 185.3 kB

  • Original 220.1 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 29.8 kB, which is 14% 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 185.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 811.0 kB
  • After minification 809.0 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. Equifax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 205.8 kB

  • Original 447.4 kB
  • After minification 447.3 kB
  • After compression 241.6 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 205.8 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 217 B

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 75.1 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. Equifax.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (44%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Equifax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

equifax.com accessibility score

91

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

equifax.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

equifax.com SEO score

86

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

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