Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

bestbulbsdirect.com

Home - Best Bulbs Direct - Stage & Studio Lighting Specialists

Page Load Speed

911 ms in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

596 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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About Website

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Explore our wide range of high-quality metal halide bulbs, DJ lights, and studio lighting solutions. Illuminate every performance with our premium selection.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestbulbsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 699 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestbulbsdirect.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestbulbsdirect.com

212 ms

bestbulbsdirect.com

239 ms

ga.js

8 ms

bg.jpg

76 ms

headerbg.jpg

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bestbulbsdirect.com, 50% (4 requests) were made to Host284.hostmonster.com and 25% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (239 ms) relates to the external source Host284.hostmonster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

40.7 kB

After Optimization

37.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Bestbulbsdirect.com main page is 40.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. 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 3.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 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. Best Bulbs Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Bulbs Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

bestbulbsdirect.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

bestbulbsdirect.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bestbulbsdirect.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bestbulbsdirect.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Bestbulbsdirect.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Best Bulbs Direct. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: