Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

rakbank.com

RAKBANK In Dubai and UAE-Online Banking, Loans, Insurance

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

rakbank.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rakbank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 8 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

rakbank.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,940 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.838

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rakbank.com

98 ms

rakbank.ae

830 ms

retail-banking

1119 ms

mashup:ra:collection

1119 ms

mashup:ra:collection

1190 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rakbank.com, 92% (86 requests) were made to Rakbank.ae and 2% (2 requests) were made to Wt.rakbankdirect.ae. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Wt.rakbankdirect.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 772.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Rakbank.com main page is 2.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 102.3 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 18.0 kB, which is 15% 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 98.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. RAKBANK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 377.2 kB

  • Original 531.4 kB
  • After minification 487.8 kB
  • After compression 154.2 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 377.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 288.0 kB

  • Original 346.2 kB
  • After minification 306.8 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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. Rakbank.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (25%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RAKBANK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rakbank.com accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

rakbank.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rakbank.com 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

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 Rakbank.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 Rakbank.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

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