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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

hsbc.com

HSBC Group corporate website | HSBC Holdings plc

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

334 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

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About Website

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HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hsbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 334 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hsbc.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hsbc.com

334 ms

hsbc.css

16 ms

hsbc.common.transpiled.js

15 ms

hsbc.head.transpiled.js

15 ms

utag.sync.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Hsbc.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) belongs to the original domain Hsbc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hsbc.com main page is 3.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 150.2 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 76.6 kB, which is 51% 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 136.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. HSBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 609.4 kB

  • Original 881.3 kB
  • After minification 881.3 kB
  • After compression 271.9 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 609.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 792.1 kB

  • Original 889.6 kB
  • After minification 888.5 kB
  • After compression 97.5 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. Hsbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 792.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HSBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.hsbc.com

www.hsbc.com

334 ms

hsbc.css

hsbc.css

16 ms

hsbc.common.transpiled.js

hsbc.common.transpiled.js

15 ms

hsbc.head.transpiled.js

hsbc.head.transpiled.js

15 ms

utag.sync.js

utag.sync.js

76 ms

hsbc.body.transpiled.js

hsbc.body.transpiled.js

72 ms

hsbc.print.css

hsbc.print.css

45 ms

utag.js

utag.js

43 ms

hsbc-logo-200x25.svg

hsbc-logo-200x25.svg

248 ms

240325-our-values-and-purpose-370x208.jpg

240325-our-values-and-purpose-370x208.jpg

279 ms

240327-hk-newsletter-hex-370x208.jpg

240327-hk-newsletter-hex-370x208.jpg

247 ms

190723-media-contacts-370x208.jpg

190723-media-contacts-370x208.jpg

260 ms

220914-students-and-grads-homepage-promo-370x208.jpg

220914-students-and-grads-homepage-promo-370x208.jpg

310 ms

240425-home-page-1600x900.jpg

240425-home-page-1600x900.jpg

300 ms

240430-noel-quinn-to-retire-a-768x576.jpg

240430-noel-quinn-to-retire-a-768x576.jpg

558 ms

240502-hsbc-agm-story-768x576.jpg

240502-hsbc-agm-story-768x576.jpg

400 ms

240422-hong-kong-leads-the-way-in-trust-based-philanthropy-768x576.jpg

240422-hong-kong-leads-the-way-in-trust-based-philanthropy-768x576.jpg

422 ms

220906-students-and-graduates-1600x900.jpg

220906-students-and-graduates-1600x900.jpg

463 ms

220906-students-and-graduates-768x576.jpg

220906-students-and-graduates-768x576.jpg

609 ms

icp-license-icon.png

icp-license-icon.png

452 ms

universnextforhsbc-regular.woff

universnextforhsbc-regular.woff

200 ms

universnextforhsbc-light.woff

universnextforhsbc-light.woff

216 ms

universnextforhsbc-thin.woff

universnextforhsbc-thin.woff

217 ms

universnextforhsbc-ultralight.woff

universnextforhsbc-ultralight.woff

216 ms

universnextforhsbc-medium.woff

universnextforhsbc-medium.woff

217 ms

universnextforhsbc-bold.woff

universnextforhsbc-bold.woff

244 ms

hsbc-icons.woff

hsbc-icons.woff

245 ms

Accessibility Review

hsbc.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hsbc.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hsbc.com SEO score

85

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

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 Hsbc.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 Hsbc.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

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