Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

rmb.co.za

RMB - a leading African Corporate and Investment Bank

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rmb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rmb.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.55

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rmb.co.za

1057 ms

gtm.js

93 ms

rmb.toolkit.min.css

1648 ms

rmb-sans.css

1416 ms

ionicons.min.css

1435 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rmb.co.za, 49% (32 requests) were made to Assets.rmb.co.za and 18% (12 requests) were made to Cdn-assets-eu.frontify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Assets.rmb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

489.8 kB

After Optimization

339.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Rmb.co.za main page is 489.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 283.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 51.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 97.5 kB

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Obviously, RMB needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.5 kB or 94% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 867 B

  • Original 283.0 kB
  • After minification 283.0 kB
  • After compression 282.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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. Rmb.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RMB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rmb.co.za accessibility score

75

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rmb.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rmb.co.za SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Rmb.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 Rmb.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

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