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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

choice.direct

Patient Choice Direct - Your Choice, Direct to you

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

choice.direct screenshot

About Website

Welcome to choice.direct homepage info - get ready to check Choice best content right away, or after learning these important things about choice.direct

Your home for compression garments, hosiery applicators, lymphoedema products, stoma care & wound care.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Choice.direct page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

choice.direct performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choice.direct

36 ms

www.patientchoicedirect.com

552 ms

web.assets_frontend.min.css

330 ms

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

249 ms

addressnow-2.20.min.css

381 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Choice.direct, 45% (18 requests) were made to Patientchoicedirect.com and 18% (7 requests) were made to Choice-direct1.odoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) relates to the external source Patientchoicedirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Choice.direct main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 112.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Choice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 618 B

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

choice.direct

choice.direct

36 ms

www.patientchoicedirect.com

www.patientchoicedirect.com

552 ms

web.assets_frontend.min.css

web.assets_frontend.min.css

330 ms

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

249 ms

addressnow-2.20.min.css

addressnow-2.20.min.css

381 ms

addressnow-2.20.min.js

addressnow-2.20.min.js

242 ms

js

js

64 ms

css

css

62 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

171 ms

hxlj0lr0fe

hxlj0lr0fe

193 ms

bat.js

bat.js

188 ms

Patient%20Choice%20Direct

Patient%20Choice%20Direct

168 ms

Compression-Hosiery-900x400-01.jpg

Compression-Hosiery-900x400-01.jpg

512 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

333 ms

Cath%20Dry%20Banner.jpg

Cath%20Dry%20Banner.jpg

185 ms

Free%20pair%20of%20Gardamed%20Gloves%20with%20your%20next%20order.jpg

Free%20pair%20of%20Gardamed%20Gloves%20with%20your%20next%20order.jpg

301 ms

UroShield%20Banner.jpg

UroShield%20Banner.jpg

509 ms

Juzo%20Trend%20Colours%20Banner.jpg

Juzo%20Trend%20Colours%20Banner.jpg

833 ms

Steve%2B%20Logo.jpg

Steve%2B%20Logo.jpg

389 ms

Juzo%20Logo.png

Juzo%20Logo.png

473 ms

Bauerfeind%20Logo.png

Bauerfeind%20Logo.png

391 ms

Medi%20Logo.png

Medi%20Logo.png

417 ms

Haddenham%20Logo.png

Haddenham%20Logo.png

485 ms

Sigvaris%20Logo%202.png

Sigvaris%20Logo%202.png

484 ms

Jobst%20logo.png

Jobst%20logo.png

502 ms

Ulcer-Care-446x400-01.jpg

Ulcer-Care-446x400-01.jpg

519 ms

Silk-Garments-446x400-01.jpg

Silk-Garments-446x400-01.jpg

477 ms

Wound-Care-446x400-01.jpg

Wound-Care-446x400-01.jpg

486 ms

Catheter-Appliances-446x400-01.jpg

Catheter-Appliances-446x400-01.jpg

477 ms

Stoma-Care-900x400-01.jpg

Stoma-Care-900x400-01.jpg

563 ms

CathDry-Logo.jpg

CathDry-Logo.jpg

562 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

528 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

32 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHw.woff

43 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

73 ms

odoo_ui_icons.woff

odoo_ui_icons.woff

456 ms

187099701.js

187099701.js

38 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

16 ms

187099701

187099701

23 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

choice.direct accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

choice.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

choice.direct SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Choice.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 Choice.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

choice.direct

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