diff --git a/src/utils/coverage.js b/src/utils/coverage.js
index 4e9c613..fdf837c 100644
--- a/src/utils/coverage.js
+++ b/src/utils/coverage.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { uniq } from 'lodash';
 import settings from '../settings';
-import { JSON_HEADERS } from './fetch';
+import { jsonPost, plainFetch } from './fetch';
 import { queryCacheWithFallback } from './localCache';
 
 const {
@@ -11,11 +11,8 @@ export const githubUrl = gitCommit => `${GH_GECKO_DEV}/commit/${gitCommit}`;
 export const codecovUrl = gitCommit => (`${CODECOV_GECKO_DEV}/commit/${gitCommit}`);
 export const ccovBackendUrl = node => (`${BACKEND}/coverage/changeset/${node}`);
 
-const jsonPost = (url, body) =>
-  fetch(url, { headers: JSON_HEADERS, method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(body) });
-
 const queryChangesetCoverage = node =>
-  fetch(`${CCOV_BACKEND}/coverage/changeset/${node}`, { JSON_HEADERS });
+  plainFetch(`${CCOV_BACKEND}/coverage/changeset/${node}`);
 
 const queryActiveData = body =>
   jsonPost(`${ACTIVE_DATA}/query`, body);
diff --git a/src/utils/fetch.js b/src/utils/fetch.js
index e263ea1..21434b4 100644
--- a/src/utils/fetch.js
+++ b/src/utils/fetch.js
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
-export const JSON_HEADERS = {
+const JSON_HEADERS = {
   Accept: 'application/json',
 };
-export const PLAIN_HEADERS = {
+const PLAIN_HEADERS = {
   Accept: 'text/plain',
 };
+
+export const jsonPost = (url, body) =>
+  fetch(url, { headers: JSON_HEADERS, method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(body) });
+
+export const jsonFetch = async (url) => {
+  const response = await fetch(url, { JSON_HEADERS });
+  const json = await response.json();
+  return json;
+};
+
+export const plainFetch = url =>
+  fetch(url, { PLAIN_HEADERS });
diff --git a/src/utils/hg.js b/src/utils/hg.js
index 4a7b8be..a9bdc5b 100644
--- a/src/utils/hg.js
+++ b/src/utils/hg.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import settings from '../settings';
-import { JSON_HEADERS, PLAIN_HEADERS } from './fetch';
+import { jsonFetch, plainFetch } from './fetch';
 import { getFromCache, saveInCache } from './localCache';
 
 const { REPO_NAME, HG_HOST } = settings;
@@ -22,21 +22,20 @@ const initializedChangeset = (cset, author) => ({
 });
 
 export const getDiff = async (node, repoName = REPO_NAME) => {
-  const text = await fetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/raw-rev/${node}`, { PLAIN_HEADERS });
+  const text = await plainFetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/raw-rev/${node}`);
   return text.text();
 };
 
 export const getRawFile = (node, filePath, repoName = REPO_NAME) =>
-  fetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/raw-file/${node}/${filePath}`, { PLAIN_HEADERS });
+  plainFetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/raw-file/${node}/${filePath}`);
 
 export const getChangesetMeta = async (node, repoPath = REPO_NAME) => {
-  const text = await fetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoPath}/json-rev/${node}`, JSON_HEADERS);
-  const meta = await text.json();
+  const meta = await jsonFetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoPath}/json-rev/${node}`);
   return initializedChangeset(meta, meta.user);
 };
 
 export const getJsonPushes = (repoName = REPO_NAME, date = settings.HG_DAYS_AGO) =>
-  fetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/json-pushes?version=2&full=1&startdate=${date}`, JSON_HEADERS);
+  jsonFetch(`${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/json-pushes?version=2&full=1&startdate=${date}`);
 
 export const hgDiffUrl = (node, repoName = REPO_NAME) =>
   `${HG_HOST}/${repoName}/rev/${node}`;
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ const getChangesets = async (repoName = REPO_NAME) => {
 
     if (!csets || csets.length === 0) {
       console.debug('The local cache was not available.');
-      const text = await (await getJsonPushes(repoName)).json();
+      const text = await getJsonPushes(repoName);
       csets = await pushesToCsets(text.pushes);
     }
 
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@ const getChangesets = async (repoName = REPO_NAME) => {
       console.error(e);
     }
   } else {
-    const text = await (await getJsonPushes(repoName)).json();
+    const text = await getJsonPushes(repoName);
     csets = await pushesToCsets(text.pushes);
   }
   return csets;