Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

investment.ameriprise.com

Cash, cards & lending | Ameriprise Financial

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

429 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Investment.ameriprise.com page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investment.ameriprise.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

investment.ameriprise.com

243 ms

199 ms

479 ms

global-style-1.0.css

65 ms

bootstrap-style-3.3-amp.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Investment.ameriprise.com, 53% (26 requests) were made to Ameriprise.com and 33% (16 requests) were made to My.ameriprise.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source My.ameriprise.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (77%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

532.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Investment.ameriprise.com main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 67.7 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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. 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 67.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 17.2 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, Investment Ameriprise needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 414.6 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 1.3 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 408.9 kB

  • Original 483.0 kB
  • After minification 446.8 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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. Investment.ameriprise.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 408.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (53%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Investment Ameriprise. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

investment.ameriprise.com accessibility score

91

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

investment.ameriprise.com best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

investment.ameriprise.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Investment.ameriprise.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 Investment.ameriprise.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 Investment Ameriprise. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: