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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

alfafinancials.co.za

Forex Trading | CFD, Currency Trading | Alfa Financials

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

752 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

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About Website

Welcome to alfafinancials.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Alfa Financials best content for Bangladesh right away, or after learning these important things about alfafinancials.co.za

Alfa Financials is an FSP Regulated Broker for Forex trading, futures and CFD's trading in South Africa. Forex & Currency trading at Alfa Financials.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alfafinancials.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 752 ms and then it took 7.8 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

alfafinancials.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.111

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alfafinancials.co.za

752 ms

alfafinancials.co.za

962 ms

www.alfafinancials.co.za

1855 ms

css

28 ms

font-awesome.css

501 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Alfafinancials.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Alfafinancials.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 289.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

898.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Alfafinancials.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 859.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 287.4 kB

  • Original 327.6 kB
  • After minification 308.4 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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 287.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 859.6 kB
  • After minification 858.0 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. Alfa Financials images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (41%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alfa Financials. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alfafinancials.co.za

alfafinancials.co.za

752 ms

alfafinancials.co.za

alfafinancials.co.za

962 ms

www.alfafinancials.co.za

www.alfafinancials.co.za

1855 ms

css

css

28 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

501 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

945 ms

custom_menu.css

custom_menu.css

703 ms

custom.css

custom.css

704 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

705 ms

chart.css

chart.css

736 ms

intlTelInput.css

intlTelInput.css

750 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

937 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

938 ms

style_main.css

style_main.css

1185 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

1063 ms

cookiealert.css

cookiealert.css

754 ms

cookiealert.js

cookiealert.js

926 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

927 ms

jquery.parallax-1.1.3.js

jquery.parallax-1.1.3.js

1060 ms

highcharts.js

highcharts.js

1310 ms

exporting.js

exporting.js

1171 ms

no-data-to-display.js

no-data-to-display.js

1171 ms

chart.run.js

chart.run.js

1174 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1182 ms

custom_menu.js

custom_menu.js

1321 ms

custom_menu.bootstrap.js

custom_menu.bootstrap.js

1394 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1395 ms

utility.js

utility.js

1409 ms

formValidation.min.js

formValidation.min.js

1431 ms

bootstrapvalidator.js

bootstrapvalidator.js

1560 ms

intlTelInput.js

intlTelInput.js

1564 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1629 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

192 ms

about-get-a-call.php

about-get-a-call.php

962 ms

logo.png

logo.png

789 ms

logo-small.png

logo-small.png

789 ms

options-trading.png

options-trading.png

1096 ms

desk_mc.png

desk_mc.png

1092 ms

slider2.png

slider2.png

1365 ms

slider3.png

slider3.png

1148 ms

wht_trade.png

wht_trade.png

978 ms

ready_to_trade.png

ready_to_trade.png

1160 ms

try_plat.png

try_plat.png

1193 ms

need_help.png

need_help.png

1339 ms

min_deposit.jpg

min_deposit.jpg

1347 ms

low_spread.jpg

low_spread.jpg

1386 ms

leverage.jpg

leverage.jpg

1395 ms

pattern-bg.png

pattern-bg.png

1423 ms

education.jpg

education.jpg

1585 ms

live_account.jpg

live_account.jpg

1599 ms

support.jpg

support.jpg

1599 ms

introduction.jpg

introduction.jpg

1621 ms

visit.jpg

visit.jpg

1868 ms

demo_account.jpg

demo_account.jpg

1579 ms

contact_us.jpg

contact_us.jpg

1744 ms

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79 ms

montserrat-regular-webfont.woff

montserrat-regular-webfont.woff

1733 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1868 ms

compliance.jpg

compliance.jpg

1656 ms

livechat.png

livechat.png

1696 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

1869 ms

payment-method.jpg

payment-method.jpg

1744 ms

popup-promotion.png

popup-promotion.png

2036 ms

AUDUSD.xml

AUDUSD.xml

1415 ms

AUDUSD.xml

AUDUSD.xml

1439 ms

EURUSD.xml

EURUSD.xml

1606 ms

GBPUSD.xml

GBPUSD.xml

1621 ms

USDZAR.xml

USDZAR.xml

1632 ms

USDCAD.xml

USDCAD.xml

1644 ms

USDCHF.xml

USDCHF.xml

1590 ms

symbols.php

symbols.php

1751 ms

flags.png

flags.png

2029 ms

utils.js

utils.js

1616 ms

USDZAR.xml

USDZAR.xml

259 ms

live_data.php

live_data.php

240 ms

Accessibility Review

alfafinancials.co.za accessibility score

74

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

alfafinancials.co.za 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

alfafinancials.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alfafinancials.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Alfafinancials.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alfafinancials.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alfa Financials. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: