Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

functioncentral.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Functioncentral.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 167 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

functioncentral.co.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

functioncentral.co.uk

167 ms

www.functioncentral.co.uk

525 ms

global.css

208 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

16 ms

main.min.js

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Functioncentral.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) belongs to the original domain Functioncentral.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

863.0 kB

After Optimization

685.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Functioncentral.co.uk main page is 863.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 622.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 97.0 kB

  • Original 111.2 kB
  • After minification 84.8 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.3 kB, which is 24% 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 97.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 622.2 kB
  • After minification 541.3 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, Function Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 98.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 87 B

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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. Functioncentral.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (13%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Function Central. 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

functioncentral.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

functioncentral.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

functioncentral.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

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