Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

citigroup.com

Citi | Global Investment Bank and Financial Services

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

707 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citigroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 707 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citigroup.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,030 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

global

707 ms

event-hub.js

37 ms

react.production.min.js

40 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

76 ms

usage-citigroup.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Citigroup.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Content.citivelocity.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Citigroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (12%)

Content Size

13.3 MB

After Optimization

11.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Citigroup.com main page is 13.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 417.2 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 1.2 MB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.9 MB
  • After minification 10.9 MB

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. Citi Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 353.4 kB

  • Original 687.9 kB
  • After minification 687.9 kB
  • After compression 334.5 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 353.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Citigroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (65%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citi Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citigroup.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

citigroup.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citigroup.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Citigroup.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 Citigroup.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 data is detected on the main page of Citi Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: