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ba.uk

Book Flights, Holidays, City Breaks & Check In Online | British Airways

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ba.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ba.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.britishairways.com

346 ms

en_us

610 ms

consolidated_JQuery_ui.css

61 ms

consolidated_JQuery_ba_ui.css

146 ms

globalRefresh.css

377 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ba.uk, 5% (5 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to By.marketinghub.hp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Servedby.flashtalking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ba.uk main page is 2.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 173.8 kB

  • Original 207.4 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 37.7 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 173.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 179.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 892.4 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, Ba needs image optimization as it can save up to 179.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 954.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 296.8 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 954.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.8 kB

  • Original 140.7 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. Ba.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (65%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ba. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ba.uk SEO score

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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 Ba.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 Ba.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ba. 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: