Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

freereg.org.uk

Search Query | FreeREG

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

freereg.org.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freereg.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 402 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

freereg.org.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freereg.org.uk

402 ms

www.freereg.org.uk

605 ms

prebid_ads.js

360 ms

fuse.js

1089 ms

application-a9da0857ecf580c7f264c501e88db1d8288fa1ca5bd62d574eb8f5bb686d5c31.css

434 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Freereg.org.uk, 11% (5 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 9% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.fuseplatform.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (77%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

508.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Freereg.org.uk main page is 2.2 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 48.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 833.7 kB

  • Original 864.9 kB
  • After minification 31.2 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, FreeREG needs image optimization as it can save up to 833.7 kB or 96% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 644.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 399.2 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 644.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 192.4 kB

  • Original 248.3 kB
  • After minification 247.7 kB
  • After compression 55.9 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. Freereg.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 192.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (71%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FreeREG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

freereg.org.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

freereg.org.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

freereg.org.uk SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Freereg.org.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 Freereg.org.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 FreeREG. 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: