Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

mygecu.org

GECU - Home, Auto and Personal Loans | Credit Cards | Financial Education

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

mygecu.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mygecu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mygecu.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mygecu.org

112 ms

mygecu.org

641 ms

optimized-min.css

235 ms

optimized-min.css

352 ms

optimized-min.css

289 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Mygecu.org, 70% (46 requests) were made to Gecuprodcdn.azureedge.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Static.cloud.coveo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Gecuprodcdn.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 MB (52%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Mygecu.org main page is 8.2 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. 80% 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 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 102.6 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 22.0 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 84.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 4.0 MB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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, My GECU needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.0 MB or 54% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 393.4 kB
  • After minification 393.4 kB
  • After compression 359.2 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

-54%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 173.3 kB
  • After minification 89.3 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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. Mygecu.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (48%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My GECU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mygecu.org accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

mygecu.org best practices score

75

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

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

mygecu.org SEO score

81

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mygecu.org 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 Mygecu.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My GECU. 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: