Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gdfb.co.uk

GDFB 2003 re enactment shop for all periods from Greek to Late Medieval.

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

714 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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GDFB 2003 are trusted suppliers of re enactment goods since 2003. Supplying re enactors of all periods from Greek to Roman and Viking through to the Medieval periods with armour, weapons, clothing and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdfb.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 714 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gdfb.co.uk performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.551

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gdfb.co.uk

714 ms

jquery.min.js

132 ms

css

95 ms

fa.css

178 ms

responsive-grid.css

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Gdfb.co.uk, 33% (34 requests) were made to 33.cdn.ekm.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gdfb.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Gdfb.co.uk main page is 2.1 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 132.6 kB

  • Original 152.4 kB
  • After minification 105.2 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 47.2 kB, which is 31% 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 132.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. GDFB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 84.9 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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. Gdfb.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (44%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GDFB. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gdfb.co.uk accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

gdfb.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gdfb.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Gdfb.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 Gdfb.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 GDFB. 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: