Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

investments.hsbc.co.uk

HSBC UK - Personal & Online Banking

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

investments.hsbc.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to investments.hsbc.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Investments HSBC best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about investments.hsbc.co.uk

Welcome to HSBC UK banking products including current accounts, loans, mortgages, credit cards. Also Premier and Advance banking and more…

Visit investments.hsbc.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Investments.hsbc.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investments.hsbc.co.uk performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

investments.hsbc.co.uk

259 ms

investments.hsbc.co.uk

774 ms

top_section.js

434 ms

jquery.step-scroller.css

243 ms

default.css

1195 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Investments.hsbc.co.uk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Hsbc.co.uk and 6% (4 requests) were made to Mcmprod.hsbc.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Investments.hsbc.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (67%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

538.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Investments.hsbc.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 575.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 106.7 kB

  • Original 122.1 kB
  • After minification 93.0 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 29.2 kB, which is 24% 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 106.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

  • Original 368.8 kB
  • After minification 293.3 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, Investments HSBC needs image optimization as it can save up to 75.5 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 428.4 kB

  • Original 575.7 kB
  • After minification 476.3 kB
  • After compression 147.2 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 428.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 493.1 kB

  • Original 575.2 kB
  • After minification 478.6 kB
  • After compression 82.1 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. Investments.hsbc.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 493.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (53%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Investments 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

investments.hsbc.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Investments.hsbc.co.uk 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 Investments.hsbc.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of Investments HSBC. 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: