Access hsbc.com. HSBC Group corporate website

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

www.hsbc.com

334 ms

hsbc.css

16 ms

hsbc.common.transpiled.js

15 ms

hsbc.head.transpiled.js

15 ms

utag.sync.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Hsbc.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) belongs to the original domain Hsbc.com.

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Hsbc.com main page is 3.7 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

Original 150.2 kB
After minification 73.6 kB
After compression 13.6 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 76.6 kB, which is 51% 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 136.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.8 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. HSBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 609.4 kB

Original 881.3 kB
After minification 881.3 kB
After compression 271.9 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 609.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 792.1 kB

Original 889.6 kB
After minification 888.5 kB
After compression 97.5 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. Hsbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 792.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HSBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.