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bt.com

Broadband, TV Packages, TNT Sports & Mobile Deals | BT

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

16.8 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 16.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bt.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

home.bt.com

129 ms

common-reset.css

131 ms

header.css

129 ms

common.css

112 ms

dante.sales.promo.css

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bt.com, 19% (24 requests) were made to Img01.bt.co.uk and 4% (5 requests) were made to Assets.bt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) relates to the external source Sws-bt.meteogroup.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.4 MB (44%)

Content Size

10.0 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Bt.com main page is 10.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 852.7 kB

  • Original 937.6 kB
  • After minification 737.5 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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 200.2 kB, which is 21% 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 852.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 195.2 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.3 MB

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. BT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 880.5 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 2.2 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 310.6 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. Bt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (31%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BT. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

bt.com 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 Bt.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 Bt.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

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