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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

first.bank

First Bank | MO Bank | IL Bank | CA Bank | Accounts | Loans

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

About Website

Visit first.bank now to see the best up-to-date First content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about first.bank

First Bank is a full-service, family-owned bank in MO, IL and CA with business, family business, and personal banking services. Bank online or in-person.

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Key Findings

We analyzed First.bank page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.9 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

first.bank performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

first.bank

100 ms

first.bank

511 ms

gtm.js

143 ms

segmint.min.js

44 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original First.bank, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (600 ms) belongs to the original domain First.bank.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 450.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of First.bank main page is 2.1 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 134.4 kB

  • Original 151.4 kB
  • After minification 83.8 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 67.6 kB, which is 45% 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 134.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

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

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 204.7 kB

  • Original 543.5 kB
  • After minification 543.5 kB
  • After compression 338.8 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 204.7 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 111.9 kB
  • After minification 111.9 kB
  • After compression 73.0 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. First.bank needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.9 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

first.bank accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

first.bank 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

first.bank SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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