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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

barclays.com

Barclays | Official Website

Page Load Speed

42.4 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

26.4 sec

Page Rendered

15.7 sec

barclays.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Barclays content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about barclays.com

Barclays is a British universal bank. Our businesses include consumer banking, as well as a top-tier, global corporate and investment bank.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barclays.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 42.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barclays.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barclays.com

176 ms

www.home.barclays

1272 ms

styles.min.css

102 ms

libs.min.js

1451 ms

comstyles.min.css

1883 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Barclays.com, 76% (35 requests) were made to Home.barclays and 7% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Home.barclays.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

974.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barclays.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 934.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 175.3 kB

  • Original 192.6 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 73.0 kB, which is 38% 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 175.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 666.2 kB
  • After minification 609.8 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. Barclays images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 638.8 kB

  • Original 934.9 kB
  • After minification 924.4 kB
  • After compression 296.2 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 638.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 408.5 kB

  • Original 460.2 kB
  • After minification 455.2 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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. Barclays.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 408.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (28%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

barclays.com

barclays.com

176 ms

www.home.barclays

www.home.barclays

1272 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

102 ms

libs.min.js

libs.min.js

1451 ms

comstyles.min.css

comstyles.min.css

1883 ms

comstyles.min.js

comstyles.min.js

1883 ms

js.min.js

js.min.js

1885 ms

geoip2.js

geoip2.js

2132 ms

satelliteLib-1c03299a8b41c41548c3633b5365bbc6ba9eb297.js

satelliteLib-1c03299a8b41c41548c3633b5365bbc6ba9eb297.js

459 ms

id

id

1184 ms

mbox-contents-4f59fa4cc6a53a70d1af1e7594132b5697b34570.js

mbox-contents-4f59fa4cc6a53a70d1af1e7594132b5697b34570.js

250 ms

target.js

target.js

465 ms

ajax

ajax

799 ms

id

id

1450 ms

barclays-logo-desktop.png

barclays-logo-desktop.png

588 ms

history_connect_cross-promo_370x208.jpg

history_connect_cross-promo_370x208.jpg

587 ms

IR_Results_370x208.jpg

IR_Results_370x208.jpg

625 ms

Mountains%20Home%20Page.jpeg

Mountains%20Home%20Page.jpeg

840 ms

connect_menu.jpg

connect_menu.jpg

605 ms

image.adaptive.556.med.image

image.adaptive.556.med.image

838 ms

LEAD%20Martins%20Bank%20elephant-708.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.low.image

LEAD%20Martins%20Bank%20elephant-708.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.low.image

837 ms

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Contactless-icecream-570.jpg.adaptive1.570.214.low.image

807 ms

MAIN-DambisaMoyo-570.jpg.adaptive1.570.214.low.image

MAIN-DambisaMoyo-570.jpg.adaptive1.570.214.low.image

694 ms

LEAD%20Barclays_RadbrokeHallGV_1416.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.low.image

LEAD%20Barclays_RadbrokeHallGV_1416.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.low.image

759 ms

Aboutus.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

Aboutus.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

693 ms

From-the-archives-main.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

From-the-archives-main.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

693 ms

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generic_7086.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

759 ms

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slashie708.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

758 ms

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727 ms

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grabandgo708.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

557 ms

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contactess-708.jpg.adaptive1.270.151.med.image

557 ms

textimage.adaptive.full.med.image

textimage.adaptive.full.med.image

558 ms

social_twitter.png

social_twitter.png

727 ms

expertsans-light-webfont.svg

expertsans-light-webfont.svg

3665 ms

enquire.min.js

enquire.min.js

2175 ms

expertsans-light-webfont.woff

expertsans-light-webfont.woff

51 ms

expertsans-regular-webfont.svg

expertsans-regular-webfont.svg

404 ms

icomoon.svg

icomoon.svg

447 ms

me

me

3648 ms

s-code-contents-1aa07634fe283616186ca316272580957ec3b0f6.js

s-code-contents-1aa07634fe283616186ca316272580957ec3b0f6.js

3433 ms

en.shareprice.json

en.shareprice.json

3249 ms

enquire.min.js

enquire.min.js

267 ms

expertsans-regular-webfont.woff

expertsans-regular-webfont.woff

468 ms

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s79477820915635

1428 ms

expertsans-bold-webfont.svg

expertsans-bold-webfont.svg

26 ms

expertsans-bold-webfont.woff

expertsans-bold-webfont.woff

218 ms

Accessibility Review

barclays.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

barclays.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

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

barclays.com SEO score

86

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

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Barclays.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 Barclays.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

barclays.com

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