Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

fastdd.co.uk

Data Retrieval

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fastdd.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fastdd.co.uk performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fastdd.co.uk

412 ms

www.debitfinance.co.uk

1078 ms

www.debitfinance.co.uk

593 ms

ccm.base.css

85 ms

jquery.js

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fastdd.co.uk, 63% (37 requests) were made to Debitfinance.co.uk and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Debitfinance.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 613.8 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

426.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Fastdd.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. Javascripts take 595.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 7.3 kB, which is 21% 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 27.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 205.4 kB
  • After minification 165.3 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, Fastdd needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.1 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 377.5 kB

  • Original 595.1 kB
  • After minification 553.1 kB
  • After compression 217.6 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 377.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 168.9 kB

  • Original 204.6 kB
  • After minification 183.0 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Fastdd.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (60%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fastdd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fastdd.co.uk accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

fastdd.co.uk best practices score

75

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

fastdd.co.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fastdd.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Fastdd.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 Fastdd. 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: