Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

charlie.com

Charlie Financial - Banking for the 62+ community

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

478 ms

Page Rendered

603 ms

charlie.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Charlie content for Pakistan. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about charlie.com

Access to Social Security up to 4 weeks early and 3% earnings on deposits. Charlie is not a bank. Banking services provided by Sutton Bank, member FDIC.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlie.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlie.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlie.com

108 ms

www.heavylifting.com

66 ms

jquery.min.js

11 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

5 ms

skel.min.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Charlie.com, 71% (15 requests) were made to Heavylifting.com and 19% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (135 ms) relates to the external source Heavylifting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

417.1 kB

After Optimization

259.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Charlie.com main page is 417.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 203.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 12.4 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 4.0 kB, which is 24% 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 13.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 203.2 kB
  • After minification 195.4 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. Charlie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 148.6 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 96.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Charlie.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (47%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charlie. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

charlie.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

charlie.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

charlie.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Charlie.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Charlie.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 description is not detected on the main page of Charlie. 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: