Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ibtx.com

Independent Financial | Texas & Colorado

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ibtx.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ibtx.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.independent-bank.com

67 ms

custom.min.css

340 ms

siteAlertDefault.css

35 ms

ls.unveilhooks.min.js

28 ms

lazysizes-5.3.min.js

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ibtx.com, 13% (11 requests) were made to Cdn.firstbranchcms.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.firstbranchcms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ibtx.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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 787.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 37.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 197 B

  • Original 787.5 kB
  • After minification 787.3 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. Ibtx images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 128.2 kB

  • Original 505.1 kB
  • After minification 502.5 kB
  • After compression 376.9 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 128.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 156 B

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 65.6 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Ibtx.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (68%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ibtx. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ibtx.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

ibtx.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ibtx.com SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Ibtx.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 Ibtx.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ibtx. 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: