Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

etxcapital.co.za

ETX Capital | Forex, Indices, Shares, Commodities | FCA Regulated

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

838 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Etxcapital.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

etxcapital.co.za performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

etxcapital.co.za

49 ms

www.etxcapital.co.za

3869 ms

css

32 ms

analytics.js

23 ms

gtm.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Etxcapital.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.monecor.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Etxcapital.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (63%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

765.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Etxcapital.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 993.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 19.5 kB, which is 17% 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 99.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 422.2 kB
  • After minification 408.1 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. ETX Capital images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 699.7 kB

  • Original 993.2 kB
  • After minification 950.5 kB
  • After compression 293.5 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 699.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 469.7 kB

  • Original 515.5 kB
  • After minification 277.0 kB
  • After compression 45.8 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. Etxcapital.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 469.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (51%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ETX Capital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

etxcapital.co.za accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

etxcapital.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

etxcapital.co.za SEO score

92

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

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 Etxcapital.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 Etxcapital.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 description is not detected on the main page of ETX Capital. 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: