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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

schwabtoday.com

Charles Schwab | A modern approach to investing & retirement

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

953 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

597 ms

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About Website

Visit schwabtoday.com now to see the best up-to-date Schwab Today content for Hong Kong and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about schwabtoday.com

Charles Schwab offers a wide range of investment advice, products & services, including brokerage & retirement accounts, ETFs, online trading & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schwabtoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 953 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schwabtoday.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,030 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.438

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schwabtoday.com

953 ms

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264 ms

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245 ms

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25 ms

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79 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Schwabtoday.com, 61% (31 requests) were made to Schwab.com and 20% (10 requests) were made to Sws-gateway.schwab.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (953 ms) belongs to the original domain Schwabtoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 601.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Schwabtoday.com main page is 1.6 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. 75% 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 614.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 343.8 kB

  • Original 387.6 kB
  • After minification 193.9 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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 193.7 kB, which is 50% 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 343.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 614.9 kB
  • After minification 610.0 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 Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 233.3 kB

  • Original 370.1 kB
  • After minification 316.1 kB
  • After compression 136.8 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 233.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 240.9 kB
  • After minification 240.6 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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. Schwabtoday.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (53%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schwab Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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953 ms

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264 ms

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245 ms

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Accessibility Review

schwabtoday.com accessibility score

93

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

schwabtoday.com 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

schwabtoday.com 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 Schwabtoday.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 Schwabtoday.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

schwabtoday.com

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