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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

rate.com

Mortgages, Loans, Home Buying, Refinance Mortgage Company | Rate

Page Load Speed

787 ms in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

535 ms

Page Rendered

176 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 711 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

rate.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rate.com

76 ms

www.rate.com

120 ms

layout.css

37 ms

jquery.js

105 ms

cufon-s.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Rate.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (134 ms) belongs to the original domain Rate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.6 kB (46%)

Content Size

293.1 kB

After Optimization

158.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rate.com main page is 293.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 150.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 32.7 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 4.3 kB, which is 12% 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 31.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 89.5 kB
  • After minification 85.6 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. Rate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 150.1 kB
  • After minification 150.1 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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 86.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Rate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rate.com

rate.com

76 ms

www.rate.com

www.rate.com

120 ms

layout.css

layout.css

37 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

105 ms

cufon-s.js

cufon-s.js

70 ms

Myriad_Pro_400-Myriad_Pro_600.font.js

Myriad_Pro_400-Myriad_Pro_600.font.js

119 ms

reset.css

reset.css

37 ms

ga.js

ga.js

82 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

44 ms

bg-menu.gif

bg-menu.gif

42 ms

sep-topmenu.gif

sep-topmenu.gif

42 ms

callaction.jpg

callaction.jpg

68 ms

compare_button.png

compare_button.png

72 ms

bg-body.gif

bg-body.gif

71 ms

pic-thumbnail.jpg

pic-thumbnail.jpg

72 ms

btn-view_insurance_guide.gif

btn-view_insurance_guide.gif

72 ms

ico-arrow.gif

ico-arrow.gif

74 ms

bg-body-small.gif

bg-body-small.gif

102 ms

input-submit-state.gif

input-submit-state.gif

102 ms

map2.gif

map2.gif

103 ms

bg-body-custom_quote.gif

bg-body-custom_quote.gif

102 ms

btn-get_custom_quote.gif

btn-get_custom_quote.gif

105 ms

bg-articles.gif

bg-articles.gif

104 ms

bg-ul-insurance-type.gif

bg-ul-insurance-type.gif

132 ms

castello-brothers-logo.jpg

castello-brothers-logo.jpg

134 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

rate.com accessibility score

85

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

[lang] attributes do not have a valid value

Best Practices

rate.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

rate.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rate.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 Rate.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

rate.com

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