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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

refer-a-friend.uk

UK Refer a Friend & Referral Schemes - Refer-a-friend.uk

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Refer-a-friend.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

refer-a-friend.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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260 ms

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477 ms

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289 ms

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147 ms

85a8e30f-b23d-4973-80a4-fb6b49243a8d.js

444 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Refer-a-friend.uk, 45% (13 requests) were made to Hb.wpmucdn.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to B1985741.smushcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (700 ms) relates to the external source Dwin2.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

634.7 kB

After Optimization

540.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Refer-a-friend.uk main page is 634.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 354.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 71.1 kB
  • After minification 64.2 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. 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 57.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 74.5 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. Refer A Friend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 354.5 kB
  • After minification 354.5 kB
  • After compression 341.8 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 134.6 kB
  • After compression 109.7 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. Refer-a-friend.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (69%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Refer A Friend. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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260 ms

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477 ms

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289 ms

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147 ms

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444 ms

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79 ms

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92 ms

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94 ms

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118 ms

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143 ms

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151 ms

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37 ms

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Accessibility Review

refer-a-friend.uk accessibility score

76

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

refer-a-friend.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

refer-a-friend.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Refer-a-friend.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 Refer-a-friend.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Refer A Friend. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: