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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

freefringe.co.uk

The Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024: Free Comedy, Theatre, Cabaret and much more every August

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

340 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Free Fringe content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about freefringe.co.uk

Free Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe every August: 100's of comedy, cabaret, music, theatre and childrens shows for the price of none. A huge and exciting part of the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefringe.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefringe.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freefringe.co.uk

244 ms

www.freefestival.co.uk

308 ms

freefestival.co.uk

531 ms

site.css

231 ms

bootstrap.min.css

465 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Freefringe.co.uk, 44% (18 requests) were made to Freefestival.co.uk and 37% (15 requests) were made to Grubbygibbon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (989 ms) relates to the external source Grubbygibbon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefringe.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 77.5 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.9 kB, which is 23% 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 77.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Free Fringe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 189.7 kB
  • After minification 185.7 kB
  • After compression 71.2 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 118.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 172.8 kB

  • Original 202.4 kB
  • After minification 188.3 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. Freefringe.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Fringe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

freefringe.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

freefringe.co.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freefringe.co.uk SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freefringe.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 Freefringe.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 data is detected on the main page of Free Fringe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: