Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

idfc.com

IDFC – Infrastructure Finance Company, Investment Banking and India Infrastructure Development

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

803 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

261 ms

About Website

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IDFC is a leading finance company in India providing services ranging from infrastructure financing, infrastructure development, investment banking & project implementation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idfc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 803 ms and then it took 5.8 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

idfc.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idfc.com

803 ms

www.idfc.com

1886 ms

lytebox.js

1494 ms

lytebox.css

738 ms

main.css

1992 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Idfc.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Idfc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

651.6 kB

After Optimization

422.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Idfc.com main page is 651.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 359.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 3.2 kB, which is 15% 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 16.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 359.5 kB
  • After minification 356.1 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. IDFC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 107.7 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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 80.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 129.5 kB

  • Original 145.1 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Idfc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (31%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IDFC. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

idfc.com accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

idfc.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

idfc.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Idfc.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Idfc.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 IDFC. 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: