Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

fredmans.co.uk

Fredmans Furniture - Sofas, Chairs, Beds & Cabinets

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

623 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

fredmans.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Fredmans offers top quality service with expert advice and help for all your furnishing needs. Family owned and run for over 75 years, Fredmans is part of one of the largest family owned retail groups...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fredmans.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 623 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fredmans.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.368

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fredmans.co.uk

623 ms

main.css

31 ms

fredlogo_mobile.svg

19 ms

fredlogo_desktop.svg

388 ms

fredlogo_mobile.svg

398 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Fredmans.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Js.monitor.azure.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Fredmans.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.3 kB (67%)

Content Size

573.2 kB

After Optimization

190.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Fredmans.co.uk main page is 573.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 438.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 383.2 kB

  • Original 438.0 kB
  • After minification 342.6 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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 95.4 kB, which is 22% 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 383.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 97.8 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. Fredmans images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Fredmans.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (4%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fredmans. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fredmans.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

fredmans.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fredmans.co.uk SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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