Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

schwab.co.uk

Charles Schwab U.K. | Invest in the U.S. Market with Schwab

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

590 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

450 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schwab.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 590 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schwab.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.schwab.co.uk

590 ms

css_G84o1v_sCR_25VLg4FnCtjtoehhVQ5PMcIJbz42cTmk.css

78 ms

css_xGYKnLgPvQfozGB1Rlo7OLFytj_SXSpwWbSeLDJo1pk.css

139 ms

css_uAYcdq4O3ACTEFQiPAGdGoOrJTyXTqjJuI4W6Vcc6Rk.css

82 ms

js_-duBsLaVstW7Bvv_pdlwFcdF2GoVexfiRGwR3QqP2Cs.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Schwab.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Schwab.com and 4% (1 request) were made to S2.go-mpulse.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Schwab.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (68%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

660.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Schwab.co.uk 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 158.3 kB

  • Original 196.4 kB
  • After minification 140.4 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 55.9 kB, which is 28% 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 158.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 430.0 kB
  • After minification 428.3 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. Schwab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 195 B

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 166.6 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. Schwab.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (29%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schwab. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

schwab.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

schwab.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

schwab.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Schwab.co.uk 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 Schwab.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of Schwab. 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: