Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

citibankonline.com

Online Banking, Mortgages, Personal Loans, Investing | Citi.com

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

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About Website

Welcome to citibankonline.com homepage info - get ready to check Citi Bank Online best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about citibankonline.com

Citibank offers multiple banking services that help you find the right credit cards, open a bank account for checking, & savings, or apply for mortgage & personal loans.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citibankonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citibankonline.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,300 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.332

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citibankonline.com

72 ms

www.citi.com

137 ms

f98abcf096a1555bf6f96086ea852669dd0011213c3f

52 ms

6c8322c7341eac98645c10e3d1d3c7ae.js

128 ms

tagging.min.js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citibankonline.com, 93% (26 requests) were made to Citi.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Online.citi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (429 ms) relates to the external source Citi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

795.7 kB

After Optimization

219.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Citibankonline.com main page is 795.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 699.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 576.1 kB

  • Original 699.1 kB
  • After minification 697.4 kB
  • After compression 123.0 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 576.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 11.5 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. Citi Bank Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 85.1 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citi Bank Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citibankonline.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

citibankonline.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citibankonline.com SEO score

85

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 Citibankonline.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 Citibankonline.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 Citi Bank Online. 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: