Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

balancetransfers.com

Balance Transfers - Credit Card Balance Transfers

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

549 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balancetransfers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 549 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balancetransfers.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.balancetransfers.com

549 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

38 ms

css

14 ms

438d93dfbc00066b6afa6a76da34c035.css

195 ms

82ce71fadfe65d335568eb196f5f4a1f.js

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Balancetransfers.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) belongs to the original domain Balancetransfers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

966.4 kB

After Optimization

735.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Balancetransfers.com main page is 966.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 625.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 9.7 kB, which is 14% 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 56.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 625.1 kB
  • After minification 619.4 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. Balance Transfers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 168.2 kB

  • Original 274.0 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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 168.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (36%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balance Transfers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

balancetransfers.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

balancetransfers.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

balancetransfers.com SEO score

97

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

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 Balancetransfers.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 Balancetransfers.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Balance Transfers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: