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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

activetrader.schwab.com

Trading | Charles Schwab

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

679 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Activetrader.schwab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

activetrader.schwab.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.366

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trading

100 ms

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50 ms

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62 ms

js_-duBsLaVstW7Bvv_pdlwFcdF2GoVexfiRGwR3QqP2Cs.js

28 ms

optiprospect.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Activetrader.schwab.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Glancecdn.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Storage.glancecdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Schwab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 651.2 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

725.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Activetrader.schwab.com main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 497.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 446.4 kB

  • Original 497.4 kB
  • After minification 239.2 kB
  • After compression 50.9 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 258.2 kB, which is 52% 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 446.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 432.8 kB
  • After minification 417.6 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. Activetrader Schwab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 183.5 kB

  • Original 271.3 kB
  • After minification 271.3 kB
  • After compression 87.8 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 183.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 175.2 kB
  • After minification 174.9 kB
  • After compression 169.1 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. Activetrader.schwab.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (36%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Activetrader Schwab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 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

activetrader.schwab.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

activetrader.schwab.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

activetrader.schwab.com SEO score

90

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

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