Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

northwesternfcu.com

Northwestern Federal Credit Union - Northwestern Federal Credit Union

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

420 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwesternfcu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northwesternfcu.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northwesternfcu.com

109 ms

northwesternfcu.com

2037 ms

style-blocks.build.css

68 ms

style.min.css

143 ms

frontend_blocks_deprecated_v2.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Northwesternfcu.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Northwesternfcu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 347.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Northwesternfcu.com main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 31.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 266.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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, Northwestern Fcu needs image optimization as it can save up to 266.1 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 278.4 kB
  • After compression 265.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 111.7 kB
  • After minification 111.7 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Northwesternfcu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.4 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northwestern Fcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northwesternfcu.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

northwesternfcu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northwesternfcu.com SEO score

100

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

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 Northwesternfcu.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 Northwesternfcu.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 Northwestern Fcu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: