Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

nedbank.co.za

Personal banking services for better money choices | Nedbank

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

548 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nedbank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 548 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nedbank.co.za performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value39.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.763

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unsupported.html

548 ms

dependencies.min.d26c8b70256e265751b744ad164d767a.css

801 ms

main.min.bdee902924ba7ebcae34e64da5016873.css

1737 ms

nedbank-formtheme.min.6a1108ea94aa13dc5808a38d53685599.css

1528 ms

navigation.min.1c36e9c6c4c9388b5ad7a801df85e242.css

1271 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Nedbank.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Nedbank.d3.sc.omtrdc.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Dpm.demdex.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Nedbank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

846.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nedbank.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 875.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 1.9 kB, which is 22% 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 6.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 591.9 kB
  • After minification 535.2 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. Nedbank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 632.8 kB

  • Original 875.4 kB
  • After minification 867.1 kB
  • After compression 242.6 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 632.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 413.8 kB

  • Original 480.1 kB
  • After minification 474.3 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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. Nedbank.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 413.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nedbank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nedbank.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

nedbank.co.za 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nedbank.co.za SEO score

79

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 Nedbank.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 Nedbank.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

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