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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

bestrates.com

BestRates.com: Top Deals on Mortgages, Credit Cards, Savings Accounts and Insurance

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

955 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestrates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestrates.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestrates.com

71 ms

www.bestrates.com

240 ms

home.css

24 ms

style-blocks.build.css

55 ms

style.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Bestrates.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (240 ms) belongs to the original domain Bestrates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

225.9 kB

After Optimization

183.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestrates.com main page is 225.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 87.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 41.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 87.0 kB
  • After minification 87.0 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. Best Rates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 104 B

  • Original 52.5 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 52.4 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 518 B

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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. Bestrates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (67%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bestrates.com

bestrates.com

71 ms

www.bestrates.com

www.bestrates.com

240 ms

home.css

home.css

24 ms

style-blocks.build.css

style-blocks.build.css

55 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

71 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

28 ms

qscookie.js

qscookie.js

44 ms

common.js

common.js

43 ms

menu.js

menu.js

40 ms

common.css

common.css

62 ms

home.js

home.js

62 ms

rate_box.css

rate_box.css

140 ms

sh

sh

103 ms

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vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

103 ms

dc.js

dc.js

16 ms

br_sprite.png

br_sprite.png

54 ms

search-arrow.png

search-arrow.png

54 ms

navigation_separator.jpg

navigation_separator.jpg

55 ms

bluemid.png

bluemid.png

56 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

76 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

40 ms

website_home.jpg

website_home.jpg

41 ms

home_sprite.png

home_sprite.png

40 ms

common_sprite.png

common_sprite.png

238 ms

geryboxmid.png

geryboxmid.png

33 ms

leftbluemid.png

leftbluemid.png

49 ms

Accessibility Review

bestrates.com accessibility score

60

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bestrates.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bestrates.com SEO score

64

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

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 Bestrates.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 Bestrates.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Best Rates. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: