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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

friendlyfinance.co.za

South Africa’s Top Loan Search – Find a loan | Friendly Finance

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

800 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Friendly Finance content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about friendlyfinance.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Friendlyfinance.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 800 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

friendlyfinance.co.za performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.414

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

friendlyfinance.co.za

800 ms

style.min.css

768 ms

styles-b442092b5c00b707c6a36b46c2346616.css

791 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

787 ms

style.min-a31aeb0f4449cec409803744940d631d.css

786 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Friendlyfinance.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Friendlyfinance.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

366.1 kB

After Optimization

342.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Friendlyfinance.co.za main page is 366.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 286.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 26.1 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. 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 21.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 13.1 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. Friendly Finance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 286.8 kB
  • After minification 286.8 kB
  • After compression 285.2 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 126 B

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. Friendlyfinance.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (70%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Friendly Finance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

friendlyfinance.co.za

friendlyfinance.co.za

800 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

768 ms

styles-b442092b5c00b707c6a36b46c2346616.css

styles-b442092b5c00b707c6a36b46c2346616.css

791 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

787 ms

style.min-a31aeb0f4449cec409803744940d631d.css

style.min-a31aeb0f4449cec409803744940d631d.css

786 ms

screen.min.css

screen.min.css

797 ms

style-53e39e777b02e23c2333214f444e2e22.css

style-53e39e777b02e23c2333214f444e2e22.css

810 ms

mailin-front-30231e856189bc276f899a58586318c5.css

mailin-front-30231e856189bc276f899a58586318c5.css

1533 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1794 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1544 ms

mailin-front-9793a709a4914baa5e9ef327b5087b4e.js

mailin-front-9793a709a4914baa5e9ef327b5087b4e.js

1562 ms

bootstrap.min-662b9224866865d42863c48361c93cf3.css

bootstrap.min-662b9224866865d42863c48361c93cf3.css

1828 ms

bootstrap.min-1b1d993095cd24079b0a895054f38f98.js

bootstrap.min-1b1d993095cd24079b0a895054f38f98.js

1827 ms

main-3d9b5d20c5145b34580fc72c5c2abd33.css

main-3d9b5d20c5145b34580fc72c5c2abd33.css

2305 ms

js

js

62 ms

leadsclinic_forms_min-97013b54d43b6c9cdab9463c79ad6fc3.js

leadsclinic_forms_min-97013b54d43b6c9cdab9463c79ad6fc3.js

2286 ms

scripts-b920f7c659a463cefde1b26941031216.js

scripts-b920f7c659a463cefde1b26941031216.js

2381 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend-script-9a6159fdae9dd9df4de6f77f0a81d3cd.js

wpcf7-redirect-frontend-script-9a6159fdae9dd9df4de6f77f0a81d3cd.js

2567 ms

api.js

api.js

48 ms

script-1b0a642f758dcdac002bd92096f63ee2.js

script-1b0a642f758dcdac002bd92096f63ee2.js

2591 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

2595 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

3054 ms

css2

css2

30 ms

js

js

85 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

65 ms

bg.svg

bg.svg

850 ms

font

font

97 ms

recaptcha__de.js

recaptcha__de.js

87 ms

collect

collect

43 ms

collect

collect

66 ms

decision.png

decision.png

773 ms

ff-logo-w.png

ff-logo-w.png

880 ms

search.png

search.png

747 ms

decision-1.png

decision-1.png

772 ms

spinner.gif

spinner.gif

773 ms

bg.svg

bg.svg

1030 ms

ff-logo-w.png

ff-logo-w.png

753 ms

Accessibility Review

friendlyfinance.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

friendlyfinance.co.za 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

friendlyfinance.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Friendlyfinance.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 Friendlyfinance.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

friendlyfinance.co.za

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