Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

gumtree.co.uk

Gumtree | Free classified ads from the #1 classifieds site in the UK

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

721 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

668 ms

gumtree.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gumtree.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Gumtree best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about gumtree.co.uk

Gumtree is the first site for free classifieds ads in the UK. Buy and sell items, cars, properties, and find or offer jobs in your area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gumtree.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 721 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gumtree.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,520 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gumtree.com

721 ms

gpt.js

76 ms

2157890407.js

125 ms

beacon.js

257 ms

gtm.js

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gumtree.co.uk, 8% (12 requests) were made to Gumtree.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source I.ebayimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Gumtree.co.uk main page is 3.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 264.6 kB

  • Original 331.3 kB
  • After minification 331.1 kB
  • After compression 66.7 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 264.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Gumtree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 887.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 535.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 887.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 309.5 kB

  • Original 369.5 kB
  • After minification 369.1 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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. Gumtree.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 309.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (42%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gumtree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gumtree.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

gumtree.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gumtree.co.uk SEO score

97

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

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