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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

brokercheck.org

BrokerCheck - Find a broker, investment or financial advisor

Page Load Speed

691 ms in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

516 ms

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

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BrokerCheck is a trusted tool that shows you employment history, certifications, licenses, and any violations for brokers and investment advisors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brokercheck.org page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 623 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brokercheck.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brokercheck.org

68 ms

brokercheck.finra.org

100 ms

analytics.js

134 ms

css2

157 ms

runtime.b8e67c154b52e97c6f48.js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brokercheck.org, 50% (6 requests) were made to Brokercheck.finra.org and 25% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (168 ms) relates to the external source Brokercheck.finra.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

38.2 kB

After Optimization

34.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brokercheck.org main page is 38.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 23.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 3.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. Brokercheck.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (57%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

3

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Broker Check. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brokercheck.org

brokercheck.org

68 ms

brokercheck.finra.org

brokercheck.finra.org

100 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

134 ms

css2

css2

157 ms

runtime.b8e67c154b52e97c6f48.js

runtime.b8e67c154b52e97c6f48.js

57 ms

polyfills.40694d7d565e2d55b948.js

polyfills.40694d7d565e2d55b948.js

85 ms

scripts.372717ad52e6876e649f.js

scripts.372717ad52e6876e649f.js

98 ms

main.3d9c129a4951050a8854.js

main.3d9c129a4951050a8854.js

168 ms

styles.89cc279928866ef53c9c.css

styles.89cc279928866ef53c9c.css

30 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5vAx0_IsE.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5vAx0_IsE.ttf

46 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Me5WZNCzc.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Me5WZNCzc.ttf

54 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlvAx0_IsE.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlvAx0_IsE.ttf

56 ms

Accessibility Review

brokercheck.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

brokercheck.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

brokercheck.org SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Brokercheck.org 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 Brokercheck.org 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

brokercheck.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Broker Check. 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: