Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

franchisedirect.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

331 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franchisedirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 331 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franchisedirect.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,650 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franchisedirect.co.uk

331 ms

www.franchisedirect.co.uk

322 ms

header-new.css

214 ms

font-awesome.min.css

307 ms

thickbox.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 214 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Franchisedirect.co.uk, 71% (153 requests) were made to C1590022.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com and 6% (13 requests) were made to 3442f2c7a7b40abc2fc5-6d3cda0276c60ac1534ec49761ff6aa7.r91.cf1.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source C1590022.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 536.2 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

844.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Franchisedirect.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 827.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 205.3 kB

  • Original 248.4 kB
  • After minification 245.6 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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 205.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 827.2 kB
  • After minification 728.8 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. Obviously, Franchise Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 98.5 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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 10.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 222.3 kB

  • Original 263.9 kB
  • After minification 206.3 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Franchisedirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 222.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (14%)

Requests Now

208

After Optimization

178

The browser has sent 208 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franchise Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franchisedirect.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

franchisedirect.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

franchisedirect.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Franchisedirect.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 Franchisedirect.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 Franchise Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: