Tools & Wizards About Us
investgcsb.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

investgcsb.com

GCSB Investment Center - Investment & Retirement Products

Page Load Speed

840 ms in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

536 ms

Page Rendered

213 ms

investgcsb.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Invest GCSB content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about investgcsb.com

GCSB Investment Center offers a wide variety of investment and retirement products located in Guthrie County, Iowa. GCSB Investment Center products include individual, retirement and corporate investm...

Visit investgcsb.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Investgcsb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 749 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investgcsb.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.investgcsb.com

91 ms

js

217 ms

css

48 ms

styles.css

26 ms

template.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Investgcsb.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (217 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Investgcsb.com main page is 1.8 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 10.0 kB, which is 37% 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 21.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Invest GCSB needs image optimization as it can save up to 195.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 368.6 kB
  • After minification 368.6 kB
  • After compression 330.5 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

-34%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Investgcsb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (36%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Invest GCSB. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.investgcsb.com

www.investgcsb.com

91 ms

js

js

217 ms

css

css

48 ms

styles.css

styles.css

26 ms

template.css

template.css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

40 ms

jquery-ui-gcsbic.css

jquery-ui-gcsbic.css

27 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

75 ms

jquery-validate.js

jquery-validate.js

39 ms

flexslider.js

flexslider.js

39 ms

cycle.js

cycle.js

43 ms

api.js

api.js

200 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

132 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

132 ms

search1.png

search1.png

131 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

131 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

131 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

134 ms

GCSB20008_GCIC_ArticleHeader_Images3.png

GCSB20008_GCIC_ArticleHeader_Images3.png

148 ms

readMore.png

readMore.png

134 ms

GCSB20008_GCIC_ArticleHeader_Images9.png

GCSB20008_GCIC_ArticleHeader_Images9.png

141 ms

slide2.jpg

slide2.jpg

135 ms

AIF%20Certification%20trademark%20image%20(acronym%20only).jpg

AIF%20Certification%20trademark%20image%20(acronym%20only).jpg

134 ms

link.png

link.png

136 ms

container_bottom.jpg

container_bottom.jpg

26 ms

prev.png

prev.png

24 ms

next.png

next.png

26 ms

rotateshadow.png

rotateshadow.png

57 ms

readmore.jpg

readmore.jpg

26 ms

submit.png

submit.png

24 ms

news_divider.jpg

news_divider.jpg

25 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

56 ms

footer-top.jpg

footer-top.jpg

57 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQ.woff

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQ.woff

55 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsgH1x4gaVQ.woff

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsgH1x4gaVQ.woff

54 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVQ.woff

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVQ.woff

72 ms

memQYaGs126MiZpBA-UFUIcVXSCEkx2cmqvXlWq8tWZ0Pw86hd0Rk8ZkWVAexg.woff

memQYaGs126MiZpBA-UFUIcVXSCEkx2cmqvXlWq8tWZ0Pw86hd0Rk8ZkWVAexg.woff

72 ms

memQYaGs126MiZpBA-UFUIcVXSCEkx2cmqvXlWq8tWZ0Pw86hd0RkyFjWVAexg.woff

memQYaGs126MiZpBA-UFUIcVXSCEkx2cmqvXlWq8tWZ0Pw86hd0RkyFjWVAexg.woff

114 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

71 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

91 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

9 ms

Accessibility Review

investgcsb.com accessibility score

56

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

investgcsb.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

investgcsb.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Investgcsb.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 Investgcsb.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

investgcsb.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Invest GCSB. 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: