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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

lower.com

Lower.com | Super simple. Lower rate. Dedicated mortgage expert. Get a home loan you’ll actually love.

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

10.8 sec

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About Website

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

"Best mortgage ever." Technology and people work together to create a simple, connected experience—led by your very own expert. It’s the perfect balance to make sure this decision” is your best one ev...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lower.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 13 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lower.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lower.com

14 ms

lower.com

97 ms

www.lower.com

1418 ms

lower-redesign.webflow.aa0f3906d.min.css

77 ms

index.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Lower.com, 80% (70 requests) were made to Cdn.prod.website-files.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Assets.website-files.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Lower.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lower.com main page is 2.0 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. 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 100.3 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 81.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Lower images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 340.0 kB
  • After minification 340.0 kB
  • After compression 340.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 61.6 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. Lower.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (33%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lower. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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97 ms

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Accessibility Review

lower.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

lower.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

lower.com SEO score

96

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Lower.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 Lower.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

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