Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

firstbusiness.com

Business Banking and Financial Services - First Business Bank

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

683 ms

firstbusiness.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to firstbusiness.com homepage info - get ready to check First Business best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about firstbusiness.com

Through strategic solutions and unmatched service, First Business Bank focuses on your business financial service, private wealth, and specialty finance needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstbusiness.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstbusiness.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstbusiness.com

3269 ms

firstbusiness.bank

167 ms

otSDKStub.js

48 ms

ie.js

225 ms

v4.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Firstbusiness.com, 37% (24 requests) were made to Firstbusiness.bank and 20% (13 requests) were made to Media.firstbusiness.bank. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstbusiness.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

839.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstbusiness.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 416.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 256.3 kB
  • After minification 256.1 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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 194.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 416.8 kB
  • After minification 414.0 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. First Business images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 345.6 kB
  • After minification 345.5 kB
  • After compression 338.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Firstbusiness.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (65%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Business. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstbusiness.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

firstbusiness.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

firstbusiness.com SEO score

93

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

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 Firstbusiness.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 Firstbusiness.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 data is detected on the main page of First Business. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: