Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

directcaraudio.com

Direct Car Audio | Chandler | Discount Car Stereo Installation

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

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About Website

Welcome to directcaraudio.com homepage info - get ready to check Direct Car Audio best content right away, or after learning these important things about directcaraudio.com

When it comes to Car Audio and Car Alarms, more people trust Direct Car Audio than any other car stereo retailer. We have been selling and installing top name audio products locally in the Phoenix val...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directcaraudio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directcaraudio.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directcaraudio.com

228 ms

site_global.css

66 ms

master_b-master.css

140 ms

index.css

135 ms

require.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Directcaraudio.com, 14% (12 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 13% (11 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (851 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 950.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Directcaraudio.com main page is 2.5 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 8.6 kB, which is 25% 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 27.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 269.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Direct Car Audio needs image optimization as it can save up to 269.6 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 606.6 kB

  • Original 880.6 kB
  • After minification 879.6 kB
  • After compression 274.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 606.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. Directcaraudio.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (36%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Car Audio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

directcaraudio.com accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

directcaraudio.com best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

directcaraudio.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Directcaraudio.com 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 Directcaraudio.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 Direct Car Audio. 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: