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finance.com

Top Credit Cards - Citi.com

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Finance.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

finance.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

finance.com

111 ms

citi.action

652 ms

19469

60 ms

Bootstrap.js

43 ms

jquery-1.7.2.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Finance.com, 10% (11 requests) were made to Chat.online.citi.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Ad.atdmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (652 ms) belongs to the original domain Finance.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (76%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

759.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Finance.com main page is 3.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 143.7 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 22.3 kB, which is 13% 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 143.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 252.5 kB
  • After minification 234.3 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. Finance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 422.6 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 1.7 MB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 573.3 kB

  • Original 650.2 kB
  • After minification 579.2 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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. Finance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 573.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (81%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Finance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

finance.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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