Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

iggroup.com

Financial Trading | Derivatives Trading | IG Group

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

iggroup.com screenshot

About Website

Visit iggroup.com now to see the best up-to-date IG Group content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about iggroup.com

IG Group is a world leader in derivatives trading and an established member of the FTSE 250. Discover more about IG, our brands and current vacancies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iggroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 253 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iggroup.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iggroup.com

253 ms

www.iggroup.com

595 ms

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11 ms

css_lxWOPZ2RXwMmDmN19XNmtWMWHPHo6dv_sJ4MjQimiRg.css

12 ms

css_IPoXTIXR31UM-JdsU0km9MiPsmNDugyJNP2pzpZ92Ls.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Iggroup.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Admin.brightcove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) belongs to the original domain Iggroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 611.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

988.0 kB

After Optimization

376.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Iggroup.com main page is 988.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 537.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 6.8 kB, which is 17% 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 32.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 169.5 kB
  • After minification 168.0 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. IG Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 372.7 kB

  • Original 537.5 kB
  • After minification 510.1 kB
  • After compression 164.8 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 372.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 204.4 kB

  • Original 241.0 kB
  • After minification 240.3 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. Iggroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (67%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IG Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iggroup.com accessibility score

90

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

iggroup.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

iggroup.com SEO score

83

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 Iggroup.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 Iggroup.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 IG Group. 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: