Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

tradestation.io

TradeStation | Online Trading And Brokerage Services

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

732 ms

tradestation.io screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tradestation.io page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 3.6 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

tradestation.io performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value52.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.018

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tradestation.io

16 ms

www.tradestation.io

13 ms

www.tradestation.io

61 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

23 ms

bootstrap.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 187 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Tradestation.io, 21% (39 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (15 requests) were made to Uploads.tradestation.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 396.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Tradestation.io main page is 1.6 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 764.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 341.2 kB

  • Original 423.5 kB
  • After minification 408.0 kB
  • After compression 82.3 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 341.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 435.9 kB
  • After minification 405.4 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. Trade Station images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 764.0 kB
  • After minification 764.0 kB
  • After compression 739.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Tradestation.io has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (74%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Trade Station. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tradestation.io accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

tradestation.io SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Tradestation.io 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 Tradestation.io 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 Trade Station. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: