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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

applynow.scottrade.com

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Applynow.scottrade.com page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 1.3 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

applynow.scottrade.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.441

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

accountApplication

267 ms

fonts.css

52 ms

site.css

265 ms

site.css

418 ms

login.css

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Applynow.scottrade.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (418 ms) relates to the external source Invest.tdameritrade.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

328.2 kB

After Optimization

319.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Applynow.scottrade.com main page is 328.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 289.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 1.2 kB, which is 13% 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 7.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 587 B

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 28.5 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. Applynow Scottrade images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 289.3 kB
  • After minification 289.3 kB
  • After compression 287.9 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. Applynow.scottrade.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (33%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Applynow Scottrade. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

accountApplication

accountApplication

267 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

52 ms

site.css

site.css

265 ms

site.css

site.css

418 ms

login.css

login.css

282 ms

unsupportedBrowser.css

unsupportedBrowser.css

163 ms

secure-form.png

secure-form.png

138 ms

bg_login_header.png

bg_login_header.png

134 ms

logo_sponsorship_header.png

logo_sponsorship_header.png

129 ms

vd_alert_icons.png

vd_alert_icons.png

129 ms

icon_chrome_50x50.png

icon_chrome_50x50.png

127 ms

icon_firefox_50x50.png

icon_firefox_50x50.png

130 ms

icon_internetexplorer_50x50.png

icon_internetexplorer_50x50.png

129 ms

icon_safari_50x50.png

icon_safari_50x50.png

124 ms

bcf54343-d033-41ee-bbd7-2b77df3fe7ba.woff

bcf54343-d033-41ee-bbd7-2b77df3fe7ba.woff

54 ms

14ff6081-326d-4dae-b778-d7afa66166fc.woff

14ff6081-326d-4dae-b778-d7afa66166fc.woff

108 ms

Accessibility Review

applynow.scottrade.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

applynow.scottrade.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

applynow.scottrade.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Applynow.scottrade.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 Applynow.scottrade.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

applynow.scottrade.com

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