Free Range Web

What Dr Urls found on freerangeweb.co.uk

From the audit of their public home page on 21/10/2026, worst first. Each links to what it means and how it is fixed.

• high
  Video without captions

  WCAG 1.2.2 requires captions for all prerecorded audio content in synchronized media.

• medium
  Elements with positive tabindex

  Positive tabindex values force elements to appear first in the tab order regardless of their position in the DOM.

• medium
  Images missing width and height attributes

  Missing image dimensions are the leading cause of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), a Core Web Vital and ranking factor.

• medium
  Link has empty anchor text

  Anchor text is one of the strongest signals search engines use to understand the content of the linked page.

• medium
  Render-blocking CSS or JavaScript

  Render-blocking resources directly impact First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), both Core Web Vitals metrics.

• medium
  Scripts without async or defer

  Synchronous scripts halt HTML parsing while the browser downloads and executes them.

• medium
  Stylesheets loaded in body

  Stylesheets in the body block rendering of subsequent content and can cause visible layout shifts as styles are applied incrementally.

• medium
  Too many external CSS stylesheets

  Multiple CSS files multiply HTTP requests and increase the total blocking time before the page can render.

• low
  Below-the-fold images not lazy loaded

  Loading all images immediately increases initial page weight and competes with critical resources for bandwidth.

• low
  ETag header missing on resources

  Without ETags, browsers cannot efficiently validate whether cached resources have changed.

• low
  Excessive inline CSS

  Inline CSS cannot be cached separately by the browser, so it is re-downloaded with every page load.

• low
  Image has empty alt attribute

  If a content-relevant image has an empty alt attribute, search engines cannot understand what the image depicts, and it will not appear in image search results.

And 3 more. 4 security findings are not listed on this public page; the site's owner sees them in a full audit after claiming it.