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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

barclays.ie

Barclays Bank Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barclays.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barclays.ie performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

264 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.html

308 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.html

683 ms

styles.min.css

32 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Barclays.ie, 9% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Barclayscorporate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (683 ms) relates to the external source Ib.barclays.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (62%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

630.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barclays.ie main page is 1.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 155.2 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 63.6 kB, which is 36% 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 155.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 745 B

  • Original 101.3 kB
  • After minification 100.5 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

-69%

Potential reduce by 831.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 377.2 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 831.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 195.3 kB
  • After minification 195.3 kB
  • After compression 133.5 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. Barclays.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

264 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.html

barclays-bank-ireland.html

308 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.html

barclays-bank-ireland.html

683 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

32 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

99 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

121 ms

libs.min.js

libs.min.js

62 ms

csrf.min.js

csrf.min.js

59 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

58 ms

js

js

62 ms

launch-ENb8e19d2ec23049118f4cc640a8acce90.min.js

launch-ENb8e19d2ec23049118f4cc640a8acce90.min.js

61 ms

ibsearch.min.css

ibsearch.min.css

53 ms

ibsearch.min.js

ibsearch.min.js

62 ms

ibdesign.min.css

ibdesign.min.css

57 ms

ibdesign.min.js

ibdesign.min.js

58 ms

ibhomepage.min.css

ibhomepage.min.css

49 ms

ibhomepage.min.js

ibhomepage.min.js

60 ms

js.min.js

js.min.js

83 ms

d2d5d3ad-b548-4ab5-a770-a977d3649883.json

d2d5d3ad-b548-4ab5-a770-a977d3649883.json

187 ms

token.json

token.json

168 ms

barclays_eagle.svg

barclays_eagle.svg

67 ms

Barclays%20Logo%20Web.jpg

Barclays%20Logo%20Web.jpg

67 ms

search-new.svg

search-new.svg

66 ms

arrow-navy.svg

arrow-navy.svg

64 ms

arrow-ext-popup.svg

arrow-ext-popup.svg

78 ms

footer_twitter_x.svg

footer_twitter_x.svg

68 ms

linkedIn-icon.png

linkedIn-icon.png

76 ms

footer_instagram.svg

footer_instagram.svg

77 ms

location

location

113 ms

BarclaysEffra_W_Rg.woff

BarclaysEffra_W_Rg.woff

598 ms

BarclaysEffra_W_Bd.woff

BarclaysEffra_W_Bd.woff

52 ms

BarclaysEffra_W_Md.woff

BarclaysEffra_W_Md.woff

417 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.tagsearch.html

barclays-bank-ireland.tagsearch.html

50 ms

InterestedInBARX_countries.txt

InterestedInBARX_countries.txt

138 ms

barclays-bank-ireland.tagsearch.html

barclays-bank-ireland.tagsearch.html

52 ms

Accessibility Review

barclays.ie accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

barclays.ie best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

barclays.ie SEO score

77

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 doesn't use 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.ie 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.ie 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.ie

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