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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bankofthewest.com

BMO U.S. - Personal & Business Banking, Lending & Investing

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bankofthewest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 1.7 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

bankofthewest.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bankofthewest.com

121 ms

516 ms

otSDKStub.js

32 ms

onetrust-cookie-banner-contentful-us.js

35 ms

f1d5a30b5a4d1378.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bankofthewest.com, 95% (136 requests) were made to Bmo.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (516 ms) relates to the external source Bmo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (63%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bankofthewest.com main page is 3.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 128.9 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. 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 1.1 MB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 243.5 kB
  • After minification 236.2 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. Bankofthewest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 841.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 748.1 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 841.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Bankofthewest.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (42%)

Requests Now

140

After Optimization

81

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 140 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bankofthewest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bankofthewest.com

www.bankofthewest.com

121 ms

516 ms

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Accessibility Review

bankofthewest.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bankofthewest.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

bankofthewest.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 Bankofthewest.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 Bankofthewest.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

bankofthewest.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bankofthewest. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: