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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

castlecreek.com

Castle Creek Capital | Private Equity | Community Banking Industry

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to castlecreek.com homepage info - get ready to check Castle Creek best content right away, or after learning these important things about castlecreek.com

Castle Creek is an alternative asset management firm focused on the community banking industry. Located in San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas, the firm has been a leading investor in community ba...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlecreek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castlecreek.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castlecreek.com

85 ms

castlecreek.com

71 ms

www.castlecreek.com

130 ms

css2

247 ms

bootstrap.min.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Castlecreek.com, 33% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

926.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castlecreek.com main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 940.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 4.5 kB, which is 29% 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 12.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 940.8 kB
  • After minification 909.1 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. Castle Creek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 6.2 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. Castlecreek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (58%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Creek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

castlecreek.com

castlecreek.com

85 ms

castlecreek.com

castlecreek.com

71 ms

www.castlecreek.com

www.castlecreek.com

130 ms

css2

css2

247 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

201 ms

aos.css

aos.css

50 ms

styles-aos.css

styles-aos.css

109 ms

carouselTicker.css

carouselTicker.css

157 ms

style.css

style.css

239 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

175 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

203 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

206 ms

7eae0fdb58.js

7eae0fdb58.js

271 ms

count.js

count.js

154 ms

aos.js

aos.js

154 ms

aos-init.js

aos-init.js

153 ms

carouselTicker.min.js

carouselTicker.min.js

399 ms

carouselTicker-init.js

carouselTicker-init.js

365 ms

script.js

script.js

366 ms

castle_creek_logo.svg

castle_creek_logo.svg

395 ms

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559 ms

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iStock-1190457010.jpg

551 ms

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team_sample.png

491 ms

enterprise_bank.png

enterprise_bank.png

405 ms

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carousel-arrow_right.svg

417 ms

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green-curve.svg

418 ms

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161 ms

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463 ms

Accessibility Review

castlecreek.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

castlecreek.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castlecreek.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Castlecreek.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 Castlecreek.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

castlecreek.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Castle Creek. 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: