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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

southerntrust.com

Southern Trust Mortgage - Simple, Creative, and Consistent Home Loans

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

435 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerntrust.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerntrust.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.18

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerntrust.com

42 ms

southerntrust.com

199 ms

www.southerntrust.com

241 ms

gtm.js

190 ms

style.min.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Southerntrust.com, 13% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) relates to the external source Birdeye.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southerntrust.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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.4 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 63.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Southern Trust images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 622.1 kB
  • After minification 622.1 kB
  • After compression 616.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 57.7 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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. Southerntrust.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (61%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Trust. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southerntrust.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southerntrust.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

southerntrust.com SEO score

93

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

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