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Daily Unique Visits: 72,210

Daily Page Views: 433,260

Income Per Day: $867

Estimated Value: $624,240

This website is located in United Kingdom and is using following IP address 212.159.9.4. See the complete list of popular websites hosted in United Kingdom.

f9.co.uk is registered under .UK top-level domain. Please check other sites in .UK zone.

Website f9.co.uk is using the following name servers:

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and is probably hosted by British Telecommunications PLC. See the full list of other websites hosted by British Telecommunications PLC.

The highest website f9.co.uk position in Alexa rank database was 18439 and the lowest rank position was 999428. Current position of f9.co.uk in Alexa rank database is 19862.

Desktop speed score of f9.co.uk (63/100) is better than the results of 39.87% of other sites and shows that the page desktop performance can be improved.

Mobile usability score of f9.co.uk (91/100) is better than the results of 32.41% of other sites and means that the page is mobile-friendly.

Mobile speed score of f9.co.uk (39/100) is better than the results of 17.83% of other sites and shows that the landing page performance on mobile devices is poor and can be improved.

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Domain name:
f9.co.uk

Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012

Registrar:
Plusnet Plc [Tag = FORCE9]
URL: https://www.plus.net

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 08-Mar-1999
Expiry date: 08-Mar-2025
Last updated: 09-Feb-2024

Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.

Name servers:
ns1.force9.net
ns1.plusnet.co.uk 195.166.128.17
ns2.force9.net
ns2.plusnet.co.uk 212.159.13.150

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f9.co.uk desktop page speed rank

Last tested: 2017-06-02


Desktop Speed Bad
63/100

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f9.co.uk Desktop Resource Breakdown

Total Resources92
Number of Hosts36
Static Resources47
JavaScript Resources38
CSS Resources1

f9.co.uk mobile page speed rank

Last tested: 2017-12-03


Mobile Speed Bad
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f9.co.uk mobile page usability

Last tested: 2017-12-03


Mobile Usability Good
91/100

f9.co.uk Mobile Usability Test Quick Summary


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f9.co.uk HTML validation

Errors

A “meta” element with an “http-equiv” attribute whose value is “X-UA-Compatible” must have a “content” attribute with the value “IE=edge”.

Line: 13 Column: 5 - 66
"...8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"> ..."

Element “div” not allowed as child of element “h3” in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

Line: 49 Column: 2975 - 3006
"...unctional <div class="switch__container" > <labe..." Line: 49 Column: 3815 - 3845
"...>Personal <div class="switch__container"> <labe..."

Element “span” not allowed as child of element “ul” in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

Line: 122 Column: 45 - 92
"... <span class="global-nav__secondary-aside-title"> More ..."

Duplicate ID “linecheck_postcode”.

Line: 436 Column: 25 - 539
"... <input type="text" id="linecheck_postcode" name="linecheck[postcode]" class="homepage-regex x-linecheck__input input--animate" data-tests="[{&quot;ruleId&quot;:&quot;InvalidFormat&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;regex&quot;,&quot;criteria&quot;:[&quot;^\\s*(([Gg][Ii][Rr] 0[Aa]{2})|((([A-Za-z][0-9]{1,2})|(([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]{1,2})|(([A-Za-z][0-9][A-Za-z])|([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]?[A-Za-z])))) {0,1}[0-9][A-Za-z]{2}))\\s*$&quot;],&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Please enter a valid postcode&quot;}]" required> ..."

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Line: 449 Column: 25 - 431
"... <input type="tel" id="linecheck_cli" disabled="disabled" name="linecheck[cli]" class="homepage-regex x-linecheck__input input--animate" data-tests="[{&quot;ruleId&quot;:&quot;InvalidFormat&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;regex&quot;,&quot;criteria&quot;:[&quot;^0(1|2)([0-9]\\s*){8,9}$&quot;],&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Please enter a valid landline number&quot;}]" placeholder="Enter landline number" required> ..."

An “img” element must have an “alt” attribute, except under certain conditions. For details, consult guidance on providing text alternatives for images.

Line: 706 Column: 21 - 160
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--tertiary c-signpost__image--logo" src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/logo_lockup_pinkstrapline.svg" /> ..." Line: 726 Column: 21 - 132
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--tertiary " src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/icons/icon-switching.svg" /> ..." Line: 747 Column: 21 - 131
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--tertiary " src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/icons/icon-question.svg" /> ..." Line: 767 Column: 21 - 128
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--tertiary " src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/icons/icon-phone.svg" /> ..." Line: 802 Column: 17 - 133
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--exploreProducts" src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/svgmacros/unlimited.svg" /> ..." Line: 820 Column: 17 - 139
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--exploreProducts" src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/svgmacros/unlimited-fibre.svg" /> ..." Line: 840 Column: 17 - 128
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--exploreProducts" src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/svgmacros/payg.svg" /> ..." Line: 858 Column: 17 - 126
"... <img class="c-signpost__image--exploreProducts" src="/bundles/plusnetplusnetassets/images/svgmacros/tv.svg" /> ..."

End tag “main” seen, but there were open elements.

Line: 885 Column: 13 - 19
"... </main> ..."

Unclosed element “div”.

Line: 285 Column: 1 - 18
"... <div class="grid"> ..."

No “p” element in scope but a “p” end tag seen.

Line: 1146 Column: 96 - 99
"...kages</a>.</p> <h4>..."

Saw “</>”. Probable causes: Unescaped “<” (escape as “&lt;”) or mistyped end tag.

Line: 1329 Column: - 410
"...ing Home FAQs</>.</p> <p>As p..."

End tag “p” seen, but there were open elements.

Line: 1329 Column: 412 - 415
"...e FAQs</>.</p> <p>A..."

Unclosed element “a”.

Line: 1329 Column: 313 - 391
"...s see our <a target="_blank" href="//www.plus.net/help/my-account/moving-home-or-office">Moving..."

Start tag “a” seen but an element of the same type was already open.

Line: 1331 Column: 178 - 256
"..., see our <a target="_blank" href="//www.plus.net/help/my-account/fixed-price-contracts">Fixed ..."

End tag “a” violates nesting rules.

Line: 1331 Column: 178 - 256
"..., see our <a target="_blank" href="//www.plus.net/help/my-account/fixed-price-contracts">Fixed ..."

Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.

Line: 1331 Column: 178 - 256
"..., see our <a target="_blank" href="//www.plus.net/help/my-account/fixed-price-contracts">Fixed ..."

Warnings

Consider avoiding viewport values that prevent users from resizing documents.

Line: 19 Column: 5 - 132
"...rt!"> <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=0, width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" /> ..."

The “banner” role is unnecessary for element “header”.

Line: 54 Column: 13 - 58
"... <header class="header clearfix" role="banner"> ..."

The first occurrence of ID “linecheck_postcode” was here.

Line: 389 Column: 25 - 539
"... <input type="text" id="linecheck_postcode" name="linecheck[postcode]" class="homepage-regex x-linecheck__input input--animate" data-tests="[{&quot;ruleId&quot;:&quot;InvalidFormat&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;regex&quot;,&quot;criteria&quot;:[&quot;^\\s*(([Gg][Ii][Rr] 0[Aa]{2})|((([A-Za-z][0-9]{1,2})|(([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]{1,2})|(([A-Za-z][0-9][A-Za-z])|([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]?[A-Za-z])))) {0,1}[0-9][A-Za-z]{2}))\\s*$&quot;],&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Please enter a valid postcode&quot;}]" required> ..."

The first occurrence of ID “linecheck_cli” was here.

Line: 402 Column: 25 - 379
"... <input type="tel" id="linecheck_cli" name="linecheck[cli]" class="homepage-regex x-linecheck__input input--animate" data-tests="[{&quot;ruleId&quot;:&quot;InvalidFormat&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;regex&quot;,&quot;criteria&quot;:[&quot;^\\s*0(1|2)([0-9]\\s*){8,9}$&quot;],&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Please enter a valid landline number&quot;}]" required> ..."

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