Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

checks.com

Checks.com - Order Checks As Low as $4.95 a Box Online

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

507 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Checks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 507 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

checks.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.checks.com

507 ms

common.css

90 ms

slick.css

135 ms

slick-theme.css

156 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

298 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Checks.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Pixel.prfct.co and 3% (3 requests) were made to Pixel-geo.prfct.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Ssif1.globalsign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.6 kB (46%)

Content Size

485.6 kB

After Optimization

260.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Checks.com main page is 485.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 300.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 38.0 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 30.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 107.5 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. Checks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 163.1 kB

  • Original 300.0 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 136.9 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 163.1 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Checks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (52%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Checks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

checks.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

checks.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

checks.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Checks.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 Checks.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 Checks. 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: