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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ratealert.com

RateAlert - Stay Informed on The Latest Mortgage Rate Changes

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

Visit ratealert.com now to see the best up-to-date Rate Alert content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ratealert.com

Live MBS Alerts, MBS Pricing, Rate Tracking, Monitor Mortgage Rates, Mortgage Market Monitoring, and Access Innovative Tools and Resources for Mortgage Professionals, Brokers, and Loan Officers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ratealert.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 2.9 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

ratealert.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.396

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ratealert.com

241 ms

teno3magnet.com

564 ms

Login.aspx

161 ms

SalesIndex.aspx

106 ms

normalize.css

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ratealert.com, 69% (49 requests) were made to Teno3magnet.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (926 ms) relates to the external source Teno3magnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ratealert.com main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 165.9 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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 127.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 218.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 836.2 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. Obviously, Rate Alert needs image optimization as it can save up to 218.5 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 782.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 366.9 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 782.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. Ratealert.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (34%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rate Alert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ratealert.com

ratealert.com

241 ms

teno3magnet.com

teno3magnet.com

564 ms

Login.aspx

Login.aspx

161 ms

SalesIndex.aspx

SalesIndex.aspx

106 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

101 ms

main.css

main.css

246 ms

jslider.css

jslider.css

333 ms

main-responsive.css

main-responsive.css

266 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

605 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

643 ms

ScrollToPlugin.min.js

ScrollToPlugin.min.js

316 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

358 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

360 ms

main.js

main.js

428 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

413 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

460 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

40 ms

jquery.cslider.js

jquery.cslider.js

458 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

112 ms

Rate-Alert-T3m-Company-Message.png

Rate-Alert-T3m-Company-Message.png

188 ms

icon-login.png

icon-login.png

179 ms

rate-alert-app-logo.png

rate-alert-app-logo.png

186 ms

app-google.png

app-google.png

182 ms

app-apple.png

app-apple.png

182 ms

teno3-banner.jpg

teno3-banner.jpg

306 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

306 ms

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12.png

401 ms

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12-1.png

304 ms

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589 ms

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309 ms

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476 ms

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402 ms

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444 ms

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402 ms

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582 ms

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689 ms

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506 ms

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532 ms

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569 ms

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926 ms

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622 ms

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766 ms

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691 ms

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808 ms

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707 ms

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915 ms

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811 ms

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821 ms

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11-1.png

861 ms

teno3magnet-yes-banner.jpg

teno3magnet-yes-banner.jpg

921 ms

bk-to-top.png

bk-to-top.png

922 ms

tag.js

tag.js

167 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

915 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

95 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

146 ms

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69 ms

167 ms

.jsonp

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147 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

collect

collect

115 ms

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custom-messages.13f2fa2c8d98ff03ac2a.js

9 ms

layers.e5ea973510bf60b3db41.js

layers.e5ea973510bf60b3db41.js

38 ms

storage.min.html

storage.min.html

71 ms

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78 ms

zones

zones

69 ms

UISuite.js

UISuite.js

28 ms

overlay.js

overlay.js

38 ms

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8 ms

Accessibility Review

ratealert.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

ratealert.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ratealert.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ratealert.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ratealert.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

ratealert.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rate Alert. 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: