Access schwabtoday.com. Charles Schwab | A modern approach to investing & retirement

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,030 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.438

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

schwabtoday.com

953 ms

schwabtoday.com

264 ms

www.schwab.com

245 ms

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25 ms

css_FiGeKHJtslwojy7p_aynUyL03IWkePkQDsJk25z4aOU.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Schwabtoday.com, 61% (31 requests) were made to Schwab.com and 20% (10 requests) were made to Sws-gateway.schwab.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (953 ms) belongs to the original domain Schwabtoday.com.

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Schwabtoday.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. 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 614.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 343.8 kB

Original 387.6 kB
After minification 193.9 kB
After compression 43.8 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 193.7 kB, which is 50% 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 343.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

Original 614.9 kB
After minification 610.0 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. Schwab Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 233.3 kB

Original 370.1 kB
After minification 316.1 kB
After compression 136.8 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 233.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

Original 240.9 kB
After minification 240.6 kB
After compression 221.4 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. Schwabtoday.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schwab Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.