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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

creditcards.com

Credit cards: Find the Right Card For You at Creditcards.com

Page Load Speed

50.7 sec in total

First Response

321 ms

Resources Loaded

39.1 sec

Page Rendered

11.4 sec

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About Website

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

Find the best credit cards by comparing a variety of offers for balance transfers, rewards, low interest, and more. Apply online at CreditCards.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creditcards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 321 ms and then it took 50.4 sec 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.

Performance Metrics

creditcards.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

creditcards.com

321 ms

www.creditcards.com

764 ms

css

286 ms

all.css

731 ms

cc-home.css

727 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Creditcards.com, 7% (12 requests) were made to Dpm.demdex.net and 6% (11 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) relates to the external source Cm.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (48%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Creditcards.com main page is 3.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 103.8 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 17.2 kB, which is 17% 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 76.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 169.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Credit Cards needs image optimization as it can save up to 169.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 452.7 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 1.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 566.6 kB

  • Original 669.8 kB
  • After minification 578.1 kB
  • After compression 103.1 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. Creditcards.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 566.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (58%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Credit Cards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

creditcards.com accessibility score

96

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

creditcards.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

creditcards.com SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Creditcards.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 Creditcards.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

creditcards.com

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