Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

waterstonemortgage.com

Waterstone Mortgage

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

287 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterstonemortgage.com page load time and found that the first response time was 287 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterstonemortgage.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home

287 ms

jquery-ui.css

56 ms

GetResource.ashx

96 ms

GetResource.ashx

157 ms

GetResource.ashx

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Waterstonemortgage.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Hello.myfonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterstonemortgage.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 943.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

736.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Waterstonemortgage.com main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 61.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. 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 53.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 512.1 kB
  • After minification 499.4 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. Waterstone Mortgage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 804.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 669.6 kB
  • After compression 205.5 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 804.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 90.4 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. Waterstonemortgage.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (60%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterstone Mortgage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterstonemortgage.com accessibility score

71

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role] values are not valid

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

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.

Best Practices

waterstonemortgage.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

waterstonemortgage.com SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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