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absabanking.co.za

Absa Bank | Banking for individuals and businesses

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

661 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Absabanking.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 661 ms and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

absabanking.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

absabanking.co.za

661 ms

Absacoza

1138 ms

reset.css

495 ms

structure.css

761 ms

styles.css

520 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Absabanking.co.za, 98% (116 requests) were made to Absa.co.za and 1% (1 request) were made to Absabank.d2.sc.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Absa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.4 kB (58%)

Content Size

582.2 kB

After Optimization

246.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Absabanking.co.za main page is 582.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 220.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 159.7 kB

  • Original 175.3 kB
  • After minification 127.4 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 47.9 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 159.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 220.9 kB
  • After minification 201.3 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. Absa Banking images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 42.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 115.0 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. Absabanking.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (44%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Absa Banking. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

absabanking.co.za SEO score

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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 Absabanking.co.za 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 Absabanking.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 Absa Banking. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: