Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kovacksecurities.com

Kovack Securities, Inc. / Kovack Financial Network

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kovacksecurities.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kovacksecurities.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.601

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kovacksecurities.com

199 ms

css

24 ms

font-awesome.min.css

114 ms

icon-font-custom.css

175 ms

base.css

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Kovacksecurities.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) belongs to the original domain Kovacksecurities.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.0 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

639.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Kovacksecurities.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 604.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 3.9 kB, which is 21% 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 13.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 386.6 kB
  • After minification 362.6 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. Kovack Securities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 370.0 kB

  • Original 604.0 kB
  • After minification 584.0 kB
  • After compression 234.1 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 370.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 213.5 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 195.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Kovacksecurities.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (69%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kovack Securities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kovacksecurities.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kovacksecurities.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

SEO Factors

kovacksecurities.com SEO score

100

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 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 Kovacksecurities.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 Kovacksecurities.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 Kovack Securities. 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: