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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

glacier.co.za

Wealth Management & Investments | Glacier by Sanlam

Page Load Speed

19.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

18.1 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

glacier.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit glacier.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Glacier content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about glacier.co.za

Glacier by Sanlam offers underlying investment options like unit trusts, managed portfolios, and personal share portfolios to help your savings last.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glacier.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 18.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glacier.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.239

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.glacier.co.za

1578 ms

browser_support.js

603 ms

corev15.css

1511 ms

searchv15.css

909 ms

init.js

1524 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Glacier.co.za, 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Glacier.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 642.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glacier.co.za main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 938.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 193.2 kB

  • Original 225.2 kB
  • After minification 177.7 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 47.6 kB, which is 21% 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 193.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 270.4 kB

  • Original 938.7 kB
  • After minification 668.3 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, Glacier needs image optimization as it can save up to 270.4 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 602.3 kB
  • After minification 595.3 kB
  • After compression 508.3 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 94.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 85.1 kB

  • Original 159.6 kB
  • After minification 145.1 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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. Glacier.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (63%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glacier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.glacier.co.za

www.glacier.co.za

1578 ms

browser_support.js

browser_support.js

603 ms

corev15.css

corev15.css

1511 ms

searchv15.css

searchv15.css

909 ms

init.js

init.js

1524 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1267 ms

blank.js

blank.js

926 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

930 ms

sp.init.js

sp.init.js

1214 ms

ScriptResx.ashx

ScriptResx.ashx

1543 ms

sp.runtime.js

sp.runtime.js

1547 ms

sp.search.js

sp.search.js

1537 ms

clientrenderer.js

clientrenderer.js

1575 ms

ScriptResx.ashx

ScriptResx.ashx

1825 ms

search.clientcontrols.js

search.clientcontrols.js

1827 ms

search.cbs.js

search.cbs.js

1822 ms

sharepoint_fix.css

sharepoint_fix.css

1853 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

1856 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

1881 ms

global.css

global.css

2129 ms

slick.css

slick.css

2134 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

2135 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

2166 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

2474 ms

jquery.ba-dotimeout.min.js

jquery.ba-dotimeout.min.js

2187 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

2433 ms

jquery.screwdefaultbuttonsV2.min.js

jquery.screwdefaultbuttonsV2.min.js

2434 ms

jquery.SPServices-2014.01.min.js

jquery.SPServices-2014.01.min.js

2441 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

2476 ms

idangerous.swiper-2.1.min.js

idangerous.swiper-2.1.min.js

2204 ms

idangerous.swiper.scrollbar-2.1.js

idangerous.swiper.scrollbar-2.1.js

2445 ms

jquery.ui.selectmenu.js

jquery.ui.selectmenu.js

2449 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

2457 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

2555 ms

desktop.css

desktop.css

957 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

3352 ms

favicon.ico

favicon.ico

3353 ms

spcommon.png

spcommon.png

3354 ms

siteIcon.png

siteIcon.png

3352 ms

searchresultui.png

searchresultui.png

3353 ms

sanlam-logo.png

sanlam-logo.png

3354 ms

glacier_by_sanlam_small.png

glacier_by_sanlam_small.png

3353 ms

glacier-logo-white.png

glacier-logo-white.png

3355 ms

footerLogo.png

footerLogo.png

3354 ms

glacier-footer-logo.png

glacier-footer-logo.png

3355 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

3341 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

3341 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

3339 ms

man_icon.png

man_icon.png

3341 ms

globe_bluewhite_icon.png

globe_bluewhite_icon.png

3341 ms

search-white.png

search-white.png

3342 ms

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

3334 ms

linePreview.png

linePreview.png

3333 ms

banner-arrow-prev.png

banner-arrow-prev.png

3335 ms

banner-arrow-next.png

banner-arrow-next.png

3335 ms

overlay-blue.png

overlay-blue.png

3336 ms

glacierRetirement_preview.jpg

glacierRetirement_preview.jpg

2480 ms

SanlamIncomeCapital_preview.jpg

SanlamIncomeCapital_preview.jpg

2481 ms

glacierOffshoreInvestmentPlan_preview.jpg

glacierOffshoreInvestmentPlan_preview.jpg

2481 ms

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

2467 ms

control-open.png

control-open.png

2745 ms

contact-us-telephone.png

contact-us-telephone.png

2744 ms

contact-us-email.png

contact-us-email.png

2745 ms

feedback-icon.png

feedback-icon.png

2700 ms

World-icon.png

World-icon.png

2699 ms

Twitter-icon.png

Twitter-icon.png

2700 ms

Linkdin-icon.png

Linkdin-icon.png

3003 ms

js

js

2559 ms

destination

destination

2670 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

2714 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

2707 ms

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

2967 ms

initstrings.js

initstrings.js

2926 ms

contextinfo

contextinfo

3247 ms

item_newsslidercards.js

item_newsslidercards.js

2906 ms

group_content.js

group_content.js

2906 ms

control_newsslidercards.js

control_newsslidercards.js

2902 ms

banner-pagination-v2.png

banner-pagination-v2.png

724 ms

uparrow.png

uparrow.png

722 ms

glacierOffshoreInvestmentPlan_desktop.jpg

glacierOffshoreInvestmentPlan_desktop.jpg

1632 ms

glacierRetirement_desktop.jpg

glacierRetirement_desktop.jpg

1039 ms

SanlamIncomeCapital_desktop.jpg

SanlamIncomeCapital_desktop.jpg

1042 ms

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144 ms

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139 ms

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142 ms

collect

collect

52 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

86 ms

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86 ms

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146 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

85 ms

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156 ms

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strings.js

strings.js

614 ms

customstrings.js

customstrings.js

604 ms

19 ms

ProcessQuery

ProcessQuery

718 ms

core.js

core.js

314 ms

sp.core.js

sp.core.js

308 ms

corev15.css

corev15.css

316 ms

card-arrow.png

card-arrow.png

311 ms

ci-prev-arrow.png

ci-prev-arrow.png

309 ms

ci-next-arrow.png

ci-next-arrow.png

313 ms

tablet.css

tablet.css

390 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

307 ms

print.css

print.css

306 ms

Accessibility Review

glacier.co.za accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

glacier.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

glacier.co.za SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Glacier.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 Glacier.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

glacier.co.za

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