Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

bccu.com

Bellwether Community Credit Union | NH Credit Union Home

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

575 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

bccu.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bccu.com homepage info - get ready to check Bccu best content right away, or after learning these important things about bccu.com

BCCU is an NH Credit Union serving New Hampshire with banking needs, from savings and checking accounts to personal loans, mortgages, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bccu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 575 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bccu.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bccu.org

575 ms

font-awesome.min.css

20 ms

css

66 ms

style.css

125 ms

responsive.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bccu.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Answers.silvercloudinc.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Bccu.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 849.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Bccu.com main page is 9.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 54.4 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 54.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 406.5 kB

  • Original 8.7 MB
  • After minification 8.3 MB

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. Bccu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 333.6 kB

  • Original 476.1 kB
  • After minification 401.1 kB
  • After compression 142.5 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 333.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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. Bccu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (30%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bccu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bccu.com accessibility score

77

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-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bccu.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

SEO Factors

bccu.com SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bccu.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bccu.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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