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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

citicards.com

Credit Cards - Apply for a New Credit Card Online - Citi.com

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

Visit citicards.com now to see the best up-to-date Citi Cards content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about citicards.com

Apply online for a Citi credit card that fits you: whether you want travel points or cash back, low-rate balance transfers, or to build your credit score.

Visit citicards.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Citicards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citicards.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citicards.com

74 ms

home

862 ms

89557c2456a1555bf6f96086ea852669dd0011213c3f

71 ms

external-lib.js

28 ms

fp-clientlib-v5.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citicards.com, 98% (50 requests) were made to Citi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Citi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (82%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

462.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Citicards.com main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 322.3 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. 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 1.9 MB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 274.0 kB
  • After minification 273.2 kB
  • After compression 140.2 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 133.8 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citi Cards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

citicards.com

citicards.com

74 ms

home

home

862 ms

89557c2456a1555bf6f96086ea852669dd0011213c3f

89557c2456a1555bf6f96086ea852669dd0011213c3f

71 ms

external-lib.js

external-lib.js

28 ms

fp-clientlib-v5.js

fp-clientlib-v5.js

27 ms

runtime.58ba5eacae068045.js

runtime.58ba5eacae068045.js

23 ms

polyfills.e2584e3aa9dc75d5.js

polyfills.e2584e3aa9dc75d5.js

25 ms

scripts.8ac3f2efb5091dcb.js

scripts.8ac3f2efb5091dcb.js

50 ms

vendor.0181cca5190cbcb7.js

vendor.0181cca5190cbcb7.js

73 ms

main.5772dfa99c5ab8cf.js

main.5772dfa99c5ab8cf.js

50 ms

close.svg

close.svg

288 ms

checkmark_icon-white.svg

checkmark_icon-white.svg

334 ms

plus-sign.svg

plus-sign.svg

289 ms

minus-sign.svg

minus-sign.svg

423 ms

arrow-dropdown-down.svg

arrow-dropdown-down.svg

335 ms

arrow-dropdown-up.svg

arrow-dropdown-up.svg

712 ms

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm.svg

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm.svg

498 ms

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm-bold.f863da3f8b240aeb.svg

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm-bold.f863da3f8b240aeb.svg

473 ms

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm.svg

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm.svg

968 ms

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm-bold.svg

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm-bold.svg

938 ms

arrow-dropdown-down-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-down-dark.svg

1001 ms

arrow-dropdown-up-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-up-dark.svg

740 ms

arrow-dropdown-right-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-right-dark.svg

1012 ms

switch-bg-icons.svg

switch-bg-icons.svg

1102 ms

switch-bg.svg

switch-bg.svg

924 ms

range-slider.svg

range-slider.svg

1106 ms

range-slider-focus.svg

range-slider-focus.svg

1208 ms

range-slider-focus-white.svg

range-slider-focus-white.svg

1367 ms

citiredesign.svg

citiredesign.svg

1017 ms

Interstate-Light.otf

Interstate-Light.otf

802 ms

Interstate-Light.otf

Interstate-Light.otf

808 ms

wJmU

wJmU

392 ms

styles.fdd0bdf88b530c5c.css

styles.fdd0bdf88b530c5c.css

24 ms

close.svg

close.svg

243 ms

checkmark_icon-white.svg

checkmark_icon-white.svg

87 ms

plus-sign.svg

plus-sign.svg

40 ms

minus-sign.svg

minus-sign.svg

184 ms

arrow-dropdown-down.svg

arrow-dropdown-down.svg

51 ms

arrow-dropdown-up.svg

arrow-dropdown-up.svg

250 ms

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm.svg

arrow-btn-next-dark-sm.svg

63 ms

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm.svg

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm.svg

90 ms

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm-bold.svg

arrow-btn-next-gray-sm-bold.svg

81 ms

arrow-dropdown-down-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-down-dark.svg

140 ms

arrow-dropdown-up-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-up-dark.svg

165 ms

arrow-dropdown-right-dark.svg

arrow-dropdown-right-dark.svg

141 ms

switch-bg-icons.svg

switch-bg-icons.svg

160 ms

switch-bg.svg

switch-bg.svg

183 ms

range-slider.svg

range-slider.svg

199 ms

range-slider-focus.svg

range-slider-focus.svg

238 ms

range-slider-focus-white.svg

range-slider-focus-white.svg

213 ms

Interstate-Bold.otf

Interstate-Bold.otf

200 ms

Accessibility Review

citicards.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

citicards.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citicards.com SEO score

84

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

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 Citicards.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 Citicards.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

citicards.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Citi Cards. 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: