Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

friendlyfinance.co.za

South Africa’s Top Loan Search – Find a loan | Friendly Finance

Page Load Speed

948 ms in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

668 ms

Page Rendered

245 ms

friendlyfinance.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Friendly Finance content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about friendlyfinance.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Friendlyfinance.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 913 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

friendlyfinance.co.za performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,880 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value2.738

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

friendlyfinance.co.za

35 ms

friendlyfinance.co.za

150 ms

style.min.css

19 ms

styles.css

27 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Friendlyfinance.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Tags.financeservice.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (232 ms) belongs to the original domain Friendlyfinance.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

341.1 kB

After Optimization

309.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Friendlyfinance.co.za main page is 341.1 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 270.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 29.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 13.1 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. Friendly Finance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 270.4 kB
  • After minification 270.3 kB
  • After compression 269.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 151 B

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Friendlyfinance.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (69%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Friendly Finance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

friendlyfinance.co.za accessibility score

94

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

friendlyfinance.co.za 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

friendlyfinance.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Friendlyfinance.co.za 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 Friendlyfinance.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Friendly Finance. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: