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bidvestbank.co.za

Bidvest Bank

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

628 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bidvestbank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 628 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 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bidvestbank.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bidvestbank.co.za

628 ms

www.bidvestbank.co.za

515 ms

www.bidvestbank.co.za

1563 ms

css

64 ms

font-awesome.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Bidvestbank.co.za, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bidvestbank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

808.9 kB

After Optimization

318.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bidvestbank.co.za main page is 808.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 418.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.7 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 57.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 129.1 kB
  • After minification 110.7 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. Obviously, Bidvest Bank needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 254.0 kB

  • Original 418.1 kB
  • After minification 406.7 kB
  • After compression 164.1 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 254.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 192.3 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Bidvestbank.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (61%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bidvest Bank. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bidvestbank.co.za

bidvestbank.co.za

628 ms

www.bidvestbank.co.za

www.bidvestbank.co.za

515 ms

www.bidvestbank.co.za

www.bidvestbank.co.za

1563 ms

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css

64 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

37 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

250 ms

Bidvestbank2014.css

Bidvestbank2014.css

499 ms

Bidvestbank2014-home.css

Bidvestbank2014-home.css

744 ms

ui.totop.css

ui.totop.css

742 ms

slick.css

slick.css

756 ms

1622910459.js

1622910459.js

268 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

1489 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1243 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

751 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

986 ms

easing.js

easing.js

985 ms

jquery.ui.totop.js

jquery.ui.totop.js

995 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1245 ms

cookie-handling.js

cookie-handling.js

1231 ms

slickSliderInitialize.js

slickSliderInitialize.js

1232 ms

bidvestbank2014.css

bidvestbank2014.css

996 ms

bidvestbank2014-home.css

bidvestbank2014-home.css

743 ms

webresource.axd

webresource.axd

495 ms

event

event

55 ms

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116 ms

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132 ms

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143 ms

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143 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

195 ms

BidvestBank-Logo.png

BidvestBank-Logo.png

256 ms

Your-money-our-business.png

Your-money-our-business.png

253 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

253 ms

icon-linked-in.png

icon-linked-in.png

253 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

19 ms

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104 ms

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496 ms

usd.png

usd.png

251 ms

gbp.png

gbp.png

488 ms

eur.png

eur.png

497 ms

aud.png

aud.png

495 ms

calculators.png

calculators.png

495 ms

qlBen.png

qlBen.png

480 ms

qlArrow.png

qlArrow.png

717 ms

Order_transact.jpg

Order_transact.jpg

967 ms

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129283_-_Quick_Link_Forex_Visual_400x244px.jpg

722 ms

ico-calculator.png

ico-calculator.png

690 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

669 ms

ui.totop.png

ui.totop.png

669 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

102 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

60 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

308 ms

up_loader.1.1.0.js

up_loader.1.1.0.js

98 ms

1800.js

1800.js

107 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

collect

collect

91 ms

53 ms

up

up

29 ms

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57 ms

u

u

56 ms

universal_pixel.1.1.1.js

universal_pixel.1.1.1.js

16 ms

collect

collect

43 ms

pixel

pixel

110 ms

45 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

53 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

41 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

42 ms

generic

generic

33 ms

generic

generic

15 ms

generic

generic

6 ms

pixel

pixel

35 ms

google

google

9 ms

26 ms

404.aspx

404.aspx

591 ms

25 ms

SEO Factors

bidvestbank.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bidvestbank.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Bidvestbank.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

bidvestbank.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bidvest Bank. 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: