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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hometowncashstores.com

Hometown Cash Advance - Payday Loans & Check Cashing

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

649 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

97 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hometowncashstores.com page load time and found that the first response time was 649 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hometowncashstores.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.253

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hometowncashstores.com

649 ms

style.css

169 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

45 ms

jquery.selectbox.css

42 ms

bootstrap.min.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Hometowncashstores.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (649 ms) belongs to the original domain Hometowncashstores.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hometowncashstores.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 7.5 kB, which is 36% 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 15.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Hometown Cash Stores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 337.4 kB
  • After minification 337.4 kB
  • After compression 324.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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. Hometowncashstores.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (57%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hometown Cash Stores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hometowncashstores.com

hometowncashstores.com

649 ms

style.css

style.css

169 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

45 ms

jquery.selectbox.css

jquery.selectbox.css

42 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

36 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

53 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

jquery-1.7.min.js

103 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

47 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

69 ms

at-jquery.js

at-jquery.js

42 ms

jquery.selectbox-0.2.min.js

jquery.selectbox-0.2.min.js

73 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

84 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

93 ms

common.js

common.js

89 ms

geo_data.js

geo_data.js

29 ms

map.js

map.js

82 ms

js

js

91 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

74 ms

iy0hHUXqV-Y

iy0hHUXqV-Y

139 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

338 ms

search_icon.png

search_icon.png

22 ms

mobilenav-icon.gif

mobilenav-icon.gif

23 ms

banner_1.jpg

banner_1.jpg

34 ms

banner_2.jpg

banner_2.jpg

28 ms

payday2.jpg

payday2.jpg

46 ms

payday3.jpg

payday3.jpg

34 ms

location_img.png

location_img.png

58 ms

wel_img1.jpg

wel_img1.jpg

35 ms

opensans-extrabold_2.woff

opensans-extrabold_2.woff

43 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

opensans-extrabold_2.ttf

opensans-extrabold_2.ttf

9 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

22 ms

base.js

base.js

43 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

119 ms

XSOeYOgfx9Jh0OnrBRoGZITK3RITQeOfJZOsiQTg9Ss.js

XSOeYOgfx9Jh0OnrBRoGZITK3RITQeOfJZOsiQTg9Ss.js

80 ms

embed.js

embed.js

26 ms

id

id

14 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

100 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

100 ms

Create

Create

83 ms

Accessibility Review

hometowncashstores.com accessibility score

78

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hometowncashstores.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hometowncashstores.com SEO score

86

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 doesn't use 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 Hometowncashstores.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 Hometowncashstores.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

hometowncashstores.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hometown Cash Stores. 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: