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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

directlight.co.uk

Decorative Lighting For Home & Outdoor Refined Lighting

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directlight.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directlight.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,810 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directlight.co.uk

279 ms

refinedlighting.co.uk

575 ms

css.css

81 ms

ninjaforms.css

161 ms

flatsome.css

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Directlight.co.uk, 93% (101 requests) were made to Refinedlighting.co.uk and 2% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Refinedlighting.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directlight.co.uk main page is 3.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 179.0 kB

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 190.9 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 179.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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. Directlight images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 524.3 kB
  • After minification 524.3 kB
  • After compression 522.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Directlight.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (36%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directlight. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

directlight.co.uk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

directlight.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

directlight.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Directlight.co.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 Directlight.co.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

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