Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

contractors.direct

Fit Out and Interior Design Contractors in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

3 ms

contractors.direct screenshot

About Website

Visit contractors.direct now to see the best up-to-date Contractors content for United Arab Emirates and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about contractors.direct

Looking for the top fit-out contractors and luxury interior design experts in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the UAE? Contractors Direct connects you to the best.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractors.direct page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractors.direct performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractors.direct

153 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

28 ms

main.min.css

76 ms

LanguageSwitcher.css

47 ms

module_133357523085_Start_Your_Search_-_2023.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Contractors.direct, 6% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to 6343132.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) belongs to the original domain Contractors.direct.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

666.1 kB

After Optimization

526.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Contractors.direct main page is 666.1 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. 75% 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 344.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 112.6 kB

  • Original 131.0 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 16.1 kB, which is 12% 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 112.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 344.2 kB
  • After minification 342.0 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. Contractors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 86.7 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 17.3 kB

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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. Contractors.direct needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (54%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contractors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

contractors.direct accessibility score

89

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

contractors.direct best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

contractors.direct SEO score

92

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

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 Contractors.direct 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 Contractors.direct 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

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