Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

britishgasplus.co.uk

British Gas Plus | Smart services for energy intensive businesses

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishgasplus.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishgasplus.co.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishgasplus.co.uk

143 ms

www.britishgasplus.co.uk

494 ms

main.min.css

70 ms

launch-a085c9772700.min.js

225 ms

logo.svg

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Britishgasplus.co.uk, 14% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) belongs to the original domain Britishgasplus.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 125.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

640.5 kB

After Optimization

515.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Britishgasplus.co.uk main page is 640.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 351.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 25.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 5.4 kB, which is 18% 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 25.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 351.0 kB
  • After minification 351.0 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. British Gas Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 100.2 kB

  • Original 252.1 kB
  • After minification 252.1 kB
  • After compression 151.9 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 100.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Britishgasplus.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (26%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Gas Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britishgasplus.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

britishgasplus.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

britishgasplus.co.uk SEO score

98

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 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 Britishgasplus.co.uk 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 Britishgasplus.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 British Gas Plus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: