Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

938 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

452 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Linkbank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 938 ms and then it took 2.9 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

linkbank.co.za performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

linkbank.co.za

938 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

421 ms

styles.css

460 ms

wpvi-fa4.css

455 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Linkbank.co.za, 11% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (938 ms) belongs to the original domain Linkbank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.6 kB (57%)

Content Size

633.9 kB

After Optimization

271.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Linkbank.co.za main page is 633.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 224.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 45.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 171.4 kB
  • After minification 142.1 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. Obviously, Linkbank needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 148.7 kB

  • Original 224.6 kB
  • After minification 220.6 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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 148.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 138.9 kB

  • Original 175.2 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. Linkbank.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (63%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Linkbank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

linkbank.co.za accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

linkbank.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

linkbank.co.za SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Linkbank.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Linkbank.co.za 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 Linkbank. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: