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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mercury-fx.co.za

Mercury | International Payments Specialists

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

787 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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About Website

Visit mercury-fx.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Mercury Fx content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercury-fx.co.za

Mercury is a currency specialist offering bank-beating exchange rates and lower transaction fees on international transactions. Use us & save money!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercury-fx.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 787 ms and then it took 5.3 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

mercury-fx.co.za performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercury-fx.co.za

787 ms

www.mercury.global

3861 ms

gtm.js

129 ms

d804a6207f30253b.css

8 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mercury-fx.co.za, 82% (28 requests) were made to Mercury.global and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Mercury.global.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercury-fx.co.za main page is 6.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. 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 35.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Mercury Fx images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 415 B

  • Original 660.3 kB
  • After minification 660.3 kB
  • After compression 659.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (48%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercury Fx. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mercury-fx.co.za

mercury-fx.co.za

787 ms

www.mercury.global

www.mercury.global

3861 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

129 ms

d804a6207f30253b.css

d804a6207f30253b.css

8 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

14 ms

webpack-5957d289eed13a3a.js

webpack-5957d289eed13a3a.js

27 ms

framework-0c7baedefba6b077.js

framework-0c7baedefba6b077.js

33 ms

main-4dff3117f0e7ae77.js

main-4dff3117f0e7ae77.js

32 ms

_app-b5825704c93c3b3c.js

_app-b5825704c93c3b3c.js

41 ms

ea88be26-014b1fc474132e84.js

ea88be26-014b1fc474132e84.js

32 ms

29107295-52d5ccd9ad2558b9.js

29107295-52d5ccd9ad2558b9.js

50 ms

262-a71b89518687afab.js

262-a71b89518687afab.js

56 ms

763-d4f3006f974fcca4.js

763-d4f3006f974fcca4.js

69 ms

494-b7a0ffee8100d2d8.js

494-b7a0ffee8100d2d8.js

54 ms

index-df2ab620f540139d.js

index-df2ab620f540139d.js

54 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

54 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

67 ms

mercurylogo.svg

mercurylogo.svg

166 ms

mercuryicon.svg

mercuryicon.svg

201 ms

a3.webp

a3.webp

174 ms

a1.webp

a1.webp

188 ms

a2.webp

a2.webp

210 ms

css2

css2

81 ms

send-money.jpg

send-money.jpg

190 ms

send-money-bg.jpg

send-money-bg.jpg

222 ms

check-rate.jpg

check-rate.jpg

245 ms

check-rate-bg.jpg

check-rate-bg.jpg

279 ms

my-balances.jpg

my-balances.jpg

270 ms

my-balances-bg.jpg

my-balances-bg.jpg

305 ms

gilmer-medium.ttf

gilmer-medium.ttf

359 ms

gilmer-bold.ttf

gilmer-bold.ttf

214 ms

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

18 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6V1s.ttf

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6V1s.ttf

24 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1s.ttf

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1s.ttf

32 ms

Accessibility Review

mercury-fx.co.za accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

mercury-fx.co.za 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

mercury-fx.co.za SEO score

100

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mercury-fx.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 Mercury-fx.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

mercury-fx.co.za

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