Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

edelmanfinancialengines.com

Financial Advisors | Edelman Financial Engines

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

758 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edelmanfinancialengines.com page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edelmanfinancialengines.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.edelmanfinancialengines.com

362 ms

otSDKStub.js

38 ms

jquery.min.js

49 ms

global.js

46 ms

clientlib-base.lc-cce524dda0c98964686378913652907d-lc.min.css

520 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Edelmanfinancialengines.com, 35% (21 requests) were made to S7d9.scene7.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Edelmanfinancialengines.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

988.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Edelmanfinancialengines.com main page is 1.3 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. Images take 663.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 146.8 kB

  • Original 182.2 kB
  • After minification 148.9 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 33.3 kB, which is 18% 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 146.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 663.9 kB
  • After minification 662.5 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. Edelman Financial Engines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 203.0 kB

  • Original 493.8 kB
  • After minification 492.7 kB
  • After compression 290.8 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 203.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (57%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edelman Financial Engines. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

edelmanfinancialengines.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

edelmanfinancialengines.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

edelmanfinancialengines.com SEO score

83

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

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 Edelmanfinancialengines.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 Edelmanfinancialengines.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 Edelman Financial Engines. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: