Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

mtfinanceonline.com

Financial Assistance Center - Montana Department of Commerce

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

mtfinanceonline.com screenshot

About Website

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The Montana Finance Information Center provides summary information for the most significant financing resources available from state, federal, and local institutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mtfinanceonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mtfinanceonline.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mtfinanceonline.com

263 ms

Financial-Assistance-Center

492 ms

template.css

462 ms

css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mtfinanceonline.com, 27% (12 requests) were made to Business.mt.gov and 14% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (876 ms) relates to the external source Commerce.mt.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

542.7 kB

After Optimization

472.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Mtfinanceonline.com main page is 542.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 260.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 49.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.5 kB, which is 16% 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 45.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 260.3 kB
  • After minification 256.9 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. Mtfinanceonline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 202.4 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 189.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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. Mtfinanceonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (69%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mtfinanceonline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mtfinanceonline.com accessibility score

87

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

mtfinanceonline.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mtfinanceonline.com SEO score

95

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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