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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cbonline.com

Clydesdale Bank | Personal, Business, and Private Banking | Clydesdale Bank

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

952 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cbonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 952 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cbonline.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

secure.cbonline.co.uk

952 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICANQVfqru_10291240606133530.js

329 ms

dg.js

34 ms

base.css

360 ms

custom.css

289 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cbonline.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 3% (1 request) were made to C.evidon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (952 ms) relates to the external source Secure.cbonline.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

970.2 kB

After Optimization

640.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cbonline.com main page is 970.2 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 390.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.3 kB, which is 18% 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 51.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 390.9 kB
  • After minification 389.6 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. Cbonline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 155.3 kB

  • Original 359.2 kB
  • After minification 324.0 kB
  • After compression 203.9 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 155.3 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 121.7 kB

  • Original 156.7 kB
  • After minification 136.9 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Cbonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (37%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cbonline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cbonline.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cbonline.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cbonline.com SEO score

83

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cbonline.com 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 Cbonline.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Cbonline. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: