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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

capitec.co.za

Simplified Personal and Business Banking | Capitec Bank

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

492 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capitec.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capitec.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.72

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capitec.co.za

136 ms

www.capitecbank.co.za

304 ms

gtm.js

132 ms

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

main.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Capitec.co.za, 76% (22 requests) were made to Capitecbank.co.za and 10% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (363 ms) relates to the external source Capitecbank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

710.3 kB

After Optimization

606.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Capitec.co.za main page is 710.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 246.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 159.1 kB
  • After minification 134.1 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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 24.9 kB, which is 16% 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 103.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 211.9 kB
  • After minification 211.9 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. Capitec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 246.6 kB
  • After minification 246.6 kB
  • After compression 246.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 218 B

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 92.8 kB
  • After compression 92.6 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. Capitec.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (27%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capitec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

capitec.co.za

capitec.co.za

136 ms

www.capitecbank.co.za

www.capitecbank.co.za

304 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

132 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

main.css

main.css

54 ms

find.js

find.js

25 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

186 ms

d645f72d-e146-410a-993e-271d80013956.json

d645f72d-e146-410a-993e-271d80013956.json

68 ms

capitec-logo.svg

capitec-logo.svg

25 ms

magnifying-glass.svg

magnifying-glass.svg

22 ms

close-x.svg

close-x.svg

28 ms

more-chevron.svg

more-chevron.svg

37 ms

internet-banking-desktop.svg

internet-banking-desktop.svg

38 ms

close-blue.svg

close-blue.svg

42 ms

icon-modal-close.svg

icon-modal-close.svg

80 ms

globalonelogo-1.svg

globalonelogo-1.svg

48 ms

transact---open-acccount---editorial-v2---landscape2x.png

transact---open-acccount---editorial-v2---landscape2x.png

87 ms

bb-group-logo-x2.png

bb-group-logo-x2.png

81 ms

lb-logo_lowres-cropped-resized.svg

lb-logo_lowres-cropped-resized.svg

89 ms

Capitec_logo_grey.svg

Capitec_logo_grey.svg

87 ms

chevron-footer.svg

chevron-footer.svg

363 ms

ai.2.gbl.min.js

ai.2.gbl.min.js

50 ms

hindvadodara-regular-webfont.woff

hindvadodara-regular-webfont.woff

207 ms

hindvadodara-medium-webfont.woff

hindvadodara-medium-webfont.woff

195 ms

hindvadodara-light-webfont.woff

hindvadodara-light-webfont.woff

197 ms

hindvadodara-semibold-webfont.woff

hindvadodara-semibold-webfont.woff

196 ms

hindvadodara-bold-webfont.woff

hindvadodara-bold-webfont.woff

196 ms

location

location

37 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

44 ms

Accessibility Review

capitec.co.za accessibility score

87

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

capitec.co.za 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

capitec.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Capitec.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 Capitec.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

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