Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

britishgasnewsroom.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishgasnewsroom.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishgasnewsroom.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

britishgasnewsroom.co.uk

182 ms

244 ms

the-source

378 ms

main.css

376 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 254 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Britishgasnewsroom.co.uk, 81% (206 requests) were made to Britishgas.co.uk and 2% (5 requests) were made to S.btstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Britishgas.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.1 kB (70%)

Content Size

683.5 kB

After Optimization

202.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Britishgasnewsroom.co.uk main page is 683.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 306.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 140.3 kB

  • Original 161.1 kB
  • After minification 117.1 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 44.0 kB, which is 27% 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 140.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 19.4 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, British Gas Newsroom needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.9 kB or 49% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 174.8 kB

  • Original 306.6 kB
  • After minification 306.5 kB
  • After compression 131.8 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 174.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 147.2 kB

  • Original 177.6 kB
  • After minification 177.5 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. Britishgasnewsroom.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (15%)

Requests Now

242

After Optimization

206

The browser has sent 242 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Gas Newsroom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britishgasnewsroom.co.uk accessibility score

79

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

britishgasnewsroom.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

britishgasnewsroom.co.uk SEO score

76

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 Britishgasnewsroom.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 Britishgasnewsroom.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 Newsroom. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: