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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

spero.financial

Spero Financial | Credit Union

Page Load Speed

209 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

87 ms

Page Rendered

74 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spero.financial page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 161 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Spero.financial rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

spero.financial performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spero.financial

48 ms

cf.errors.css

4 ms

browser-bar.png

4 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Spero.financial and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (48 ms) belongs to the original domain Spero.financial.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

12.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spero.financial main page is 12.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 4.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 474 B, which is 11% 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 2.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Spero images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Spero.financial has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spero. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

spero.financial

spero.financial

48 ms

cf.errors.css

cf.errors.css

4 ms

browser-bar.png

browser-bar.png

4 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

7 ms

Accessibility Review

spero.financial accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

spero.financial 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

spero.financial SEO score

91

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 Spero.financial 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 Spero.financial 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

spero.financial

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