Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

financetech.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Financetech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

financetech.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.123

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financetech.com

65 ms

archives.asp

30 ms

css

54 ms

informationweek.css

19 ms

pano-framework.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Financetech.com, 22% (41 requests) were made to Img.deusm.com and 9% (17 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source S2150.t.eloqua.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Financetech.com main page is 2.8 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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 202.9 kB

  • Original 247.0 kB
  • After minification 234.3 kB
  • After compression 44.0 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 202.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Financetech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 733.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 356.1 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 733.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 182.4 kB

  • Original 204.7 kB
  • After minification 163.4 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Financetech.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (50%)

Requests Now

165

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 165 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financetech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

financetech.com accessibility score

72

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

financetech.com best practices score

42

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

financetech.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

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