Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

smileidentity.com

Easy ID Verification, User Authentication, and Digital KYC with Smile Identity (SmileID).

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

smileidentity.com screenshot

About Website

Visit smileidentity.com now to see the best up-to-date Smile Identity content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about smileidentity.com

Smile ID is Africa’s leading digital identity verification, fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and KYC compliance solution for businesses scaling across the continent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smileidentity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smileidentity.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smileidentity.com

8 ms

usesmileid.com

1312 ms

global-63OXSSOI.css

318 ms

loader

103 ms

platform.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smileidentity.com, 42% (5 requests) were made to Decisive-attraction-317cbbe3f7.media.strapiapp.com and 25% (3 requests) were made to Usesmileid.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Usesmileid.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.8 kB (36%)

Content Size

414.1 kB

After Optimization

265.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Smileidentity.com main page is 414.1 kB. 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. Images take 228.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 121.5 kB

  • Original 145.8 kB
  • After minification 145.8 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. 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 121.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 203.0 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, Smile Identity needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 868 B
  • After minification 868 B
  • After compression 834 B

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. Smileidentity.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smile Identity. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

smileidentity.com accessibility score

87

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

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.

Best Practices

smileidentity.com 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

SEO Factors

smileidentity.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Smileidentity.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 Smileidentity.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 data is detected on the main page of Smile Identity. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: