Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

nbs.co.zw

National Building Society (NBS) | Building Communities in Zimbabwe

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nbs.co.zw homepage info - get ready to check NBS best content for Qatar right away, or after learning these important things about nbs.co.zw

National Building SocietyLimited (“NBS”) is a Registered Building Society under the Building Society Act chapter 24:20. The Society was set up with the sole mandate of contributing to the National Hou...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nbs.co.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nbs.co.zw performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.711

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nbs.co.zw

544 ms

www.nbs.co.zw

3366 ms

styles.css

1514 ms

all.min.css

49 ms

animate.min.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Nbs.co.zw, 21% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Nbs.co.zw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 313.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Nbs.co.zw main page is 4.1 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 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 126.6 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 25.5 kB, which is 17% 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 128.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. NBS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 36.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 121.6 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 127.2 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. Nbs.co.zw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (70%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NBS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nbs.co.zw accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

nbs.co.zw best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nbs.co.zw SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Nbs.co.zw 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 Nbs.co.zw 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 NBS. 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: