Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk

Barclaycard Credit Cards & Online Banking | Barclaycard

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

877 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to barclaycardfreedom.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Barclaycard Freedom best content right away, or after learning these important things about barclaycardfreedom.co.uk

Apply for a credit card, access your online banking and learn more about incentives, balance transfers and other benefits of being a Barclaycard holder

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barclaycardfreedom.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 877 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

personal

877 ms

main.min.css

633 ms

satelliteLib-2648cee985021c81e088f9a684632fa4acfd3331.js

153 ms

infrastructure.min.js

377 ms

maincms.min208.js

501 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Barclaycardfreedom.co.uk, 13% (5 requests) were made to Ots.optimize.webtrends.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (999 ms) relates to the external source Barclaycard.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.5 kB (71%)

Content Size

336.8 kB

After Optimization

99.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Barclaycardfreedom.co.uk main page is 336.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 282.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 37.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 635 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 969 B

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, Barclaycard Freedom needs image optimization as it can save up to 635 B or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 199.0 kB

  • Original 282.2 kB
  • After minification 277.2 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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 199.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barclaycard Freedom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

Best Practices

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

barclaycardfreedom.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Barclaycardfreedom.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 Barclaycardfreedom.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 description is not detected on the main page of Barclaycard Freedom. 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: