Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thegiftcardcentre.co.uk

Gift Cards & Vouchers | Buy Online | TheGiftCardCentre.co.uk

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

511 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

416 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 511 ms and then it took 3.3 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

thegiftcardcentre.co.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegiftcardcentre.co.uk

511 ms

70ca86e7e8f799ec710580b9b5058d1d.the-gift-card-centre-blue-green.css.php

92 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js.php

240 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.min.js.php

317 ms

b57a491e20cb0855f087f377d0f76a30.the-gift-card-centre-blue-green.functions.js.php

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (76%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

660.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk main page is 2.7 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 93.6 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 81.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 491.3 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, The Gift Card Centre needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 77% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 324.2 kB

  • Original 473.5 kB
  • After minification 461.4 kB
  • After compression 149.3 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 324.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 52.7 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (11%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

113

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gift Card Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thegiftcardcentre.co.uk accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thegiftcardcentre.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thegiftcardcentre.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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thegiftcardcentre.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Gift Card Centre. 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: