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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.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.7 s1.4 sApr 25Oct 101.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20261.6 s
May 2, 20261.6 s
May 9, 20261.7 s
May 16, 20261.6 s
May 23, 20261.6 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.5 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.5 s
Jun 27, 20261.5 s
Jul 4, 20261.5 s
Jul 11, 20261.6 s
Jul 18, 20261.7 s
Jul 25, 20261.6 s
Aug 1, 20261.7 s
Aug 8, 20261.6 s
Aug 15, 20261.6 s
Aug 22, 20261.6 s
Aug 29, 20261.6 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
109 ms84 msApr 25Oct 1097 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 202687 ms
May 2, 202687 ms
May 9, 202693 ms
May 16, 202694 ms
May 23, 202696 ms
May 30, 202696 ms
Jun 6, 2026103 ms
Jun 13, 202698 ms
Jun 20, 202698 ms
Jun 27, 202696 ms
Jul 4, 202696 ms
Jul 11, 2026104 ms
Jul 18, 2026106 ms
Jul 25, 2026106 ms
Aug 1, 2026104 ms
Aug 8, 2026104 ms
Aug 15, 2026101 ms
Aug 22, 2026103 ms
Aug 29, 2026104 ms
Sep 5, 2026103 ms
Sep 12, 2026103 ms
Sep 19, 2026104 ms
Sep 26, 202698 ms
Oct 3, 202698 ms
Oct 10, 202697 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

Full-page screenshot of msdfcu.org (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. msdfcu.org at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. msdfcu.org at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. msdfcu.org at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. msdfcu.org at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. msdfcu.org at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. msdfcu.org at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. msdfcu.org at 2.9 s2.9 s
  8. msdfcu.org at 3.3 s3.3 s

Speed

10 to fix61
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

    5 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 MB

    17 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 MB

    27 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

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61 (desktop: 60). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    968 KiB

    About 968 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 727 ms

    727 ms

    Google 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 ms

    Segmint 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 ms

    salemove.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 KiB

    About 28 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    25 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify JavaScript

    12 KiB

    12 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 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix100
  • 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 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 32.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 891 ms

    891 ms

    Real 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 s

    The 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 s

    Your 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 ms

    Scripts 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 s

    Real 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 ms

    Real visitors wait 100 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.08

    0.08

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real 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

    0.079

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.079, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

4 to fix25
  • Page weight: 19.3 MB in 146 requests

    19.3 MB

    Your 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 MB

    13 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 g

    By 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

4 to fixGoogle 9495
  • 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.

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  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 8590
  • 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

1 to fix88
  • 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

100
  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 5480
  • 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

2 to fix89
  • 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

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before 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

    14

    Opening 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

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