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msdfcu.org website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202636 issues · 83 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on msdfcu.org, 9 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 19.3 MB in 146 requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
85BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 93 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 94 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 97 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.9 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.
Improve image delivery
550 ms · 13.4 MB17 images could be 13.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
3.2 MB27 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.2 MB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and datatrac.net and others), adding 5.3 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 61
61/100Your mobile performance score is 61 (desktop: 60). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
968 KiBAbout 968 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Google Tag Manager adds 727 ms
727 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 727 ms of main-thread work and 1.3 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Segmint adds 27 ms
27 msSegmint costs a phone 27 ms of main-thread work and 2.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Main-thread work: 3.0 s
A phone's processor spends 3.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
salemove.com adds 151 ms
151 mssalemove.com costs a phone 151 ms of main-thread work and 422 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
13 long tasks on the main thread
13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 188 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
28 KiBAbout 28 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
25 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify JavaScript
12 KiB12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
1 checks passed
Server response: 12 ms
12 msYour server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Time to Interactive: 32.6 s
32.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 32.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 10.7 s
10.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 10.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Real-user TTFB: 891 ms
891 msReal visitors wait 891 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s
2.9 sThe first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.8 s
3.8 sYour largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Total Blocking Time: 508 ms
508 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 508 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
4 images without width and height
4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 12% slower for real visitors
+12%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 97 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 100 ms
100 msReal visitors wait 100 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.08
0.08For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 12% faster for real visitors
-12%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.079
0.079The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.079, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 19.3 MB in 146 requests
19.3 MBYour homepage downloads 19.3 MB in 146 requests on a phone: images 16.6 MB (41), scripts 2.4 MB (41) and fonts 218 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
10 images over 500 KB
10 images weigh 12.9 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
13 images far larger than shown
10.2 MB13 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example helpful-car-buying-tools.png at 2,000 px wide, shown at 303 px. Resized copies would save about 10.2 MB.
23 images in older formats
23 images (16.1 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 5.5 g of CO₂ per visit
5.48 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 5.48 g of CO₂e: 657.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Images must have alternative text (1 element)
Images must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (BankOrCreditUnion) but with 1 problem, for example “BankOrCreditUnion: logo is not an absolute URL ("https://www.msdfcu.org/images/default-source/defau…”.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.msdfcu.org/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
140 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 140 pages on msdfcu.org and 11 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “Merck Sharp & Dohme Federal Credit Union offers a variety of banking services to customers including individuals and bu…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Merck Sharp & Dohme Federal Credit Union”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Merck Sharp & Dohme Federal Credit Union | Banking Your Way”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.msdfcu.org/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.msdfcu.org/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
2 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (751 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 103 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
1 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56340681&Ver=2&mid=7af210ce-206e-43ba-b9e5-899063619f47&bo=1&sid=30819840cb0f11f1968c5da6e5b6bcc0&vid=3081c490cb0f11f1ae83f319ec9e39c4&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.
9 third-party cookies
9 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
55 of 61 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 919 words of copy
The homepage carries about 919 words of visible text.
7 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Book Appointment” and “Contact Us”.
8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Book Appointment”, “Contact Us” and “Order Personal Checks”.
1 short form
A short form (2 fields at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
14 cookies set on arrival
14Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
30 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at msdfcu.org, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Company
- Founded
- 1950
- Headquarters
- Chalfont
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