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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

bank.barclays.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

284 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bank.barclays.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 284 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bank.barclays.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.197

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

LoginLink.action

284 ms

barclays-ftb-login.css

243 ms

satelliteLib-ae53d5b03486b49cda4e1cdad71f9e5c27a809b3.js

618 ms

jq.js

666 ms

iBarclays.js

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Bank.barclays.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Smetrics.barclays.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Bank.barclays.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 658.9 kB (74%)

Content Size

886.1 kB

After Optimization

227.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bank.barclays.co.uk main page is 886.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 645.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 2.8 kB, which is 20% 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 10.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 914 B

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 20.9 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. Bank Barclays images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 465.2 kB

  • Original 645.4 kB
  • After minification 645.4 kB
  • After compression 180.3 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 465.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 182.8 kB

  • Original 205.0 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Bank.barclays.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (56%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bank Barclays. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

LoginLink.action

LoginLink.action

284 ms

barclays-ftb-login.css

barclays-ftb-login.css

243 ms

satelliteLib-ae53d5b03486b49cda4e1cdad71f9e5c27a809b3.js

satelliteLib-ae53d5b03486b49cda4e1cdad71f9e5c27a809b3.js

618 ms

jq.js

jq.js

666 ms

iBarclays.js

iBarclays.js

264 ms

ib-pre-a13.js

ib-pre-a13.js

584 ms

iBarclays.Unlock.js

iBarclays.Unlock.js

262 ms

mbox.js

mbox.js

407 ms

iBarclays.Controls.Forms.Snippets.js

iBarclays.Controls.Forms.Snippets.js

267 ms

LoginTimeoutKeepAlive.js

LoginTimeoutKeepAlive.js

269 ms

iBarclays.WebAnalytics.js

iBarclays.WebAnalytics.js

515 ms

s_codecookies.js

s_codecookies.js

668 ms

closed.gif

closed.gif

84 ms

open.gif

open.gif

86 ms

closed-white.gif

closed-white.gif

87 ms

open-white.gif

open-white.gif

94 ms

barclays-logo.png

barclays-logo.png

170 ms

1438591882481-fscs_228.jpg

1438591882481-fscs_228.jpg

174 ms

premier_league_masthead.jpg

premier_league_masthead.jpg

286 ms

barclays-logo.gif

barclays-logo.gif

239 ms

login-panel-header-disabled-arrow.gif

login-panel-header-disabled-arrow.gif

156 ms

expertsans-bold-webfont.woff

expertsans-bold-webfont.woff

228 ms

expertsans-light-webfont.woff

expertsans-light-webfont.woff

304 ms

ftb-new-login-icons.woff

ftb-new-login-icons.woff

340 ms

expertsans-regular-webfont.woff

expertsans-regular-webfont.woff

350 ms

s86688016797415

s86688016797415

8 ms

Accessibility Review

bank.barclays.co.uk accessibility score

85

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

bank.barclays.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bank.barclays.co.uk SEO score

82

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bank.barclays.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Bank.barclays.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

bank.barclays.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bank Barclays. 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: