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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

gdfb.co.uk

GDFB 2003 re enactment shop for all periods from Greek to Late Medieval.

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

931 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

946 ms

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About Website

Visit gdfb.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date GDFB content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gdfb.co.uk

GDFB 2003 are trusted suppliers of re enactment goods since 2003. Supplying re enactors of all periods from Greek to Roman and Viking through to the Medieval periods with armour, weapons, clothing and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdfb.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 931 ms and then it took 4.2 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

gdfb.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gdfb.co.uk

931 ms

jquery.min.js

130 ms

css

55 ms

fa.css

161 ms

responsive-grid.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Gdfb.co.uk, 49% (47 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 15% (14 requests) were made to 33.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) belongs to the original domain Gdfb.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gdfb.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 80% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 151.4 kB

  • Original 171.7 kB
  • After minification 115.6 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 56.1 kB, which is 33% 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 151.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. GDFB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 73.3 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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. Gdfb.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (37%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GDFB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gdfb.co.uk

www.gdfb.co.uk

931 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

130 ms

css

css

55 ms

fa.css

fa.css

161 ms

responsive-grid.css

responsive-grid.css

41 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

43 ms

theme.dymc.css

theme.dymc.css

301 ms

shopui.css

shopui.css

150 ms

css2

css2

72 ms

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87 ms

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42 ms

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45 ms

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50 ms

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50 ms

historytracker.js

historytracker.js

50 ms

productimagebadge.css

productimagebadge.css

53 ms

productimagebadge.min.js

productimagebadge.min.js

53 ms

cardJs

cardJs

355 ms

newslettersignup.js

newslettersignup.js

4 ms

shopui.js

shopui.js

80 ms

stats.js

stats.js

564 ms

stats-global.js

stats-global.js

564 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

5 ms

css

css

19 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

135 ms

hotjar-302221.js

hotjar-302221.js

198 ms

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fbevents.js

198 ms

fa-safe.css

fa-safe.css

23 ms

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xfbml.customerchat.js

229 ms

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168 ms

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final-logo.png

299 ms

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167 ms

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163 ms

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305 ms

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301 ms

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306 ms

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307 ms

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309 ms

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310 ms

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312 ms

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315 ms

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310 ms

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312 ms

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316 ms

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315 ms

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314 ms

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322 ms

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315 ms

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319 ms

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318 ms

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317 ms

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315 ms

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317 ms

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319 ms

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320 ms

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319 ms

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windsong-the-sword-of-kings-windlass-40072-p.jpg

320 ms

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320 ms

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322 ms

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322 ms

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324 ms

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323 ms

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324 ms

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324 ms

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325 ms

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156 ms

mastercard.png

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155 ms

maestro.png

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155 ms

discover.png

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154 ms

paypal.png

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155 ms

newsletter-arrow.svg

newsletter-arrow.svg

288 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

289 ms

youtube.png

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375 ms

pinterest.png

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545 ms

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892 ms

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86 ms

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100 ms

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33 ms

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29 ms

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26 ms

Accessibility Review

gdfb.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gdfb.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gdfb.co.uk SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Gdfb.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 Gdfb.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

gdfb.co.uk

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