Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

phfa.org

PHFA HOMEPAGE | Mortgage – Housing – Foreclosure Options

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

phfa.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Phfa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

phfa.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

phfa.org

251 ms

js

86 ms

gtm.js

122 ms

analytics.js

15 ms

jquery-ui.structure.min.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Phfa.org, 6% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (805 ms) belongs to the original domain Phfa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Phfa.org main page is 1.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 937.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 95.5 kB
  • After minification 87.7 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 75.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 671.7 kB
  • After minification 663.7 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. PHFA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 357.8 kB

  • Original 937.1 kB
  • After minification 933.3 kB
  • After compression 579.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 357.8 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 201.4 kB
  • After compression 144.6 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. Phfa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (57%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PHFA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

phfa.org accessibility score

96

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

phfa.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

phfa.org 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 Phfa.org 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 Phfa.org 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 data is detected on the main page of PHFA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: