Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

checkalt.com

CheckAlt | Payment, Lockbox & Treasury Solutions

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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About Website

Visit checkalt.com now to see the best up-to-date Check Alt content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about checkalt.com

CheckAlt is a leading provider of Check 21 and treasury solutions, specializing in online bill payments, remittance processing, receivables solutions and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Checkalt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.3 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

checkalt.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.checkalt.com

1029 ms

bootstrap.min.css

269 ms

style.css

146 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

314 ms

bootstrap.min.js

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Checkalt.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Checkalt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.2 kB (46%)

Content Size

885.0 kB

After Optimization

476.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Checkalt.com main page is 885.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 392.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 13.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 392.3 kB
  • After minification 332.0 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. Obviously, Check Alt needs image optimization as it can save up to 60.3 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 240.9 kB

  • Original 361.0 kB
  • After minification 353.3 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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 240.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 113.7 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Checkalt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Check Alt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

checkalt.com accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

checkalt.com best practices score

85

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

checkalt.com SEO score

96

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 Checkalt.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 Checkalt.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 description is not detected on the main page of Check Alt. 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: