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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

Fairfax Computing - specialists in E-Commerce, Web Design and System Applications Development based in Essex

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

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Fairfax Computing specialising in the design and development of E-Commerce Websites and Business Systems based in Essex.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

228 ms

www.fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

219 ms

stylesheet.css

93 ms

style.css

186 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (567 ms) belongs to the original domain Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

482.1 kB

After Optimization

452.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk main page is 482.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 410.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 1.8 kB, which is 13% 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 9.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 410.9 kB
  • After minification 404.8 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. Fairfax Computing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fairfax Computing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

228 ms

www.fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

www.fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

219 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

93 ms

style.css

style.css

186 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

utils.js

utils.js

184 ms

s3Slider.js

s3Slider.js

195 ms

ga.js

ga.js

32 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

92 ms

head_bg.jpg

head_bg.jpg

94 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

94 ms

logo_text.png

logo_text.png

190 ms

tab_bg.jpg

tab_bg.jpg

184 ms

tab_shadow.jpg

tab_shadow.jpg

186 ms

tab_about.jpg

tab_about.jpg

187 ms

tab_ecom.jpg

tab_ecom.jpg

189 ms

tab_web.jpg

tab_web.jpg

190 ms

tab_sys.jpg

tab_sys.jpg

274 ms

tab_contact.jpg

tab_contact.jpg

278 ms

slider_3.jpg

slider_3.jpg

370 ms

slider_1.jpg

slider_1.jpg

472 ms

slider_2.jpg

slider_2.jpg

567 ms

thumb_tup.jpg

thumb_tup.jpg

381 ms

thumb_beauty.jpg

thumb_beauty.jpg

365 ms

thumb_karnac.jpg

thumb_karnac.jpg

370 ms

slider_bg.png

slider_bg.png

429 ms

panel_bg.png

panel_bg.png

434 ms

panel_gry_bg.png

panel_gry_bg.png

435 ms

footer_bg.jpg

footer_bg.jpg

448 ms

Museo_Slab_500-webfont.woff

Museo_Slab_500-webfont.woff

519 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

Best Practices

fairfaxcomputing.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fairfaxcomputing.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Fairfaxcomputing.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

fairfaxcomputing.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fairfax Computing. 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: