Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

icicibank.co.uk

ICICI Bank UK - Personal, Business and Corporate Banking

Page Load Speed

42.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

32.6 sec

Page Rendered

8.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icicibank.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 41.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

icicibank.co.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.3

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.icicibank.co.uk

1087 ms

library.min.css

476 ms

custom.min.css

1511 ms

flexslider.css

485 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

681 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Icicibank.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Sdc.icicibank.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22.2 sec) relates to the external source Sdc.icicibank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 541.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Icicibank.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. 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 55.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. ICICI Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 239.3 kB

  • Original 385.4 kB
  • After minification 382.2 kB
  • After compression 146.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 239.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 216.1 kB

  • Original 284.3 kB
  • After minification 277.4 kB
  • After compression 68.2 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. Icicibank.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 216.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (23%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICICI 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

icicibank.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

icicibank.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

icicibank.co.uk SEO score

80

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Icicibank.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Icicibank.co.uk 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 ICICI Bank. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: