Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

veteransunited.com

Veterans United Home Loans | #1 VA Lender for Homebuyers

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

352 ms

veteransunited.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Veteransunited.com page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 2.8 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

veteransunited.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

veteransunited.com

326 ms

www.veteransunited.com

1227 ms

core.css

8 ms

core.js

49 ms

jquery.min.js

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Veteransunited.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Veteransunited.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

864.5 kB

After Optimization

652.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Veteransunited.com main page is 864.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 510.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 52.5 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 14.4 kB, which is 27% 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 42.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 356 B

  • Original 510.9 kB
  • After minification 510.5 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. Veterans United images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 143.3 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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 34.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 134.7 kB

  • Original 157.8 kB
  • After minification 156.5 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Veteransunited.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 134.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (76%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Veterans United. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

veteransunited.com accessibility score

94

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

veteransunited.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

SEO Factors

veteransunited.com SEO score

89

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

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 Veteransunited.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 Veteransunited.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 Veterans United. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: