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direct.capitecbank.co.za

Online Banking | Capitec Bank

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

570 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Direct.capitecbank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 570 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

direct.capitecbank.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

direct.capitecbank.co.za

570 ms

1022 ms

detectBrowser-1.4.1.js

256 ms

onlinebanking

258 ms

default-2.0.9.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Direct.capitecbank.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Direct.capitecbank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.4 kB (58%)

Content Size

48.8 kB

After Optimization

20.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Direct.capitecbank.co.za main page is 48.8 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. CSS take 34.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 456 B

  • Original 987 B
  • After minification 981 B
  • After compression 531 B

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 456 B or 46% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 12.9 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. Direct Capitec Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 217 B
  • After minification 187 B
  • After compression 133 B

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 84 B or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. Direct.capitecbank.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Capitec Bank. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

direct.capitecbank.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Direct.capitecbank.co.za 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 Direct.capitecbank.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Direct Capitec 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: