Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

rbcbank.com

Cross-Border Banking for Canadians in the U.S. - RBC Bank

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

538 ms

rbcbank.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to rbcbank.com homepage info - get ready to check RBC Bank best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about rbcbank.com

Are you a Canadian moving to or living in the U.S.? Simplify your financial life and save money with cross-border banking advice and solutions from RBC Bank.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rbcbank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rbcbank.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rbcbank.com

30 ms

www.rbcbank.com

290 ms

www.rbcbank.com

34 ms

dvl.min.css

89 ms

jquery.min.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 129 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Rbcbank.com, 5% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Discover.rbcroyalbank.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Rbcbank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 909.4 kB (45%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Rbcbank.com 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 852.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 117.1 kB

  • Original 143.5 kB
  • After minification 126.1 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.4 kB, which is 12% 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 117.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 852.1 kB
  • After minification 812.0 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. RBC Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 98.3 kB

  • Original 278.0 kB
  • After minification 276.5 kB
  • After compression 179.7 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 98.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 653.9 kB

  • Original 742.5 kB
  • After minification 738.5 kB
  • After compression 88.6 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. Rbcbank.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 653.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (52%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RBC Bank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rbcbank.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

rbcbank.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rbcbank.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Rbcbank.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 Rbcbank.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 RBC Bank. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: