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cityindex.ae

Spread Betting, CFD & Forex Trading - City Index UK

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

451 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityindex.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 451 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

cityindex.ae performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cityindex.ae

451 ms

www.cityindex.ae

590 ms

89 ms

main-rtl.css

163 ms

260403270.js

344 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Cityindex.ae, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Livehelpnow.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (882 ms) relates to the external source Livehelpnow.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 439.2 kB (46%)

Content Size

955.1 kB

After Optimization

515.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Cityindex.ae main page is 955.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 385.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 9.9 kB, which is 26% 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 30.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 385.4 kB
  • After minification 368.4 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. City Index images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 126.4 kB

  • Original 236.1 kB
  • After minification 234.7 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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 126.4 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 265.8 kB

  • Original 296.1 kB
  • After minification 240.6 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Cityindex.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 265.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (26%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Index. 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.

SEO Factors

cityindex.ae SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityindex.ae can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Arabic language. Our system also found out that Cityindex.ae 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 City Index. 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: