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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

directchoice.co.uk

Welcome to Saga – Over 50s insurance, holidays and money

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

958 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

600 ms

directchoice.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to directchoice.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Directchoice best content right away, or after learning these important things about directchoice.co.uk

Saga offers a range of products and services exclusively for the over 50s, including insurance, holidays, money and the UK's best-selling monthly magazine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directchoice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 958 ms and then it took 3.4 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

directchoice.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.saga.co.uk

958 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA2NVfqru_10281231207105659.js

100 ms

main.css

421 ms

mainSpf.css

342 ms

launch-5e75695c3207.min.js

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Directchoice.co.uk, 14% (9 requests) were made to Asset.saga.co.uk and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (978 ms) relates to the external source Saga.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directchoice.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 175.3 kB

  • Original 192.6 kB
  • After minification 98.8 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 93.8 kB, which is 49% 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 175.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 574 B

  • Original 1.3 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. Directchoice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 122.3 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 115.6 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 152 B

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Directchoice.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (12%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directchoice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.saga.co.uk

www.saga.co.uk

958 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA2NVfqru_10281231207105659.js

ruxitagentjs_ICA2NVfqru_10281231207105659.js

100 ms

main.css

main.css

421 ms

mainSpf.css

mainSpf.css

342 ms

launch-5e75695c3207.min.js

launch-5e75695c3207.min.js

115 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

119 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

50 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

70 ms

main.js

main.js

344 ms

bundle-datalayer.js

bundle-datalayer.js

348 ms

58f92378-d20d-4407-9e29-7e0f2b9e1fe5.json

58f92378-d20d-4407-9e29-7e0f2b9e1fe5.json

161 ms

saga_logo.svg

saga_logo.svg

198 ms

account.svg

account.svg

152 ms

car-featured-pod.jpg

car-featured-pod.jpg

604 ms

home-featured-pod.jpg

home-featured-pod.jpg

207 ms

nav-pod-travel-308x300px.jpg

nav-pod-travel-308x300px.jpg

284 ms

hotel-holidays.jpg

hotel-holidays.jpg

485 ms

group-tours.jpg

group-tours.jpg

502 ms

tailormade308x300.jpg

tailormade308x300.jpg

493 ms

discovery_adventure.jpg

discovery_adventure.jpg

299 ms

moselle_bend.jpg

moselle_bend.jpg

404 ms

love_your_first_saga_cruise.jpg

love_your_first_saga_cruise.jpg

404 ms

ernav300x308.jpg

ernav300x308.jpg

474 ms

savingsnav300x308.jpg

savingsnav300x308.jpg

503 ms

spf_legal_pod_308x300.jpg

spf_legal_pod_308x300.jpg

578 ms

mortgagesnav300x308.jpg

mortgagesnav300x308.jpg

591 ms

investing308x300.jpg

investing308x300.jpg

592 ms

money-news308x300.jpg

money-news308x300.jpg

591 ms

navigationimage300x308jan23.jpg

navigationimage300x308jan23.jpg

594 ms

puzzles_308.jpg

puzzles_308.jpg

673 ms

ghptravelhero1376x760.jpg

ghptravelhero1376x760.jpg

748 ms

cruise_shadow.png

cruise_shadow.png

672 ms

cruise_solid.png

cruise_solid.png

679 ms

holidays-icon.png

holidays-icon.png

691 ms

holiday_solid.png

holiday_solid.png

688 ms

car_shadow.png

car_shadow.png

762 ms

car_solid.png

car_solid.png

771 ms

money_shadow.png

money_shadow.png

770 ms

money_solid.png

money_solid.png

779 ms

magazine-icon.png

magazine-icon.png

784 ms

magazine_solid.png

magazine_solid.png

841 ms

contact-us-icon.png

contact-us-icon.png

851 ms

contact_solid.png

contact_solid.png

858 ms

mortgagesphghp670x520.jpg

mortgagesphghp670x520.jpg

871 ms

ghptravelinsurance670x520.jpg

ghptravelinsurance670x520.jpg

946 ms

rivers_ghp-(1).png

rivers_ghp-(1).png

959 ms

generation-experience_400x225.jpg

generation-experience_400x225.jpg

978 ms

Saga_Marble_01.svg

Saga_Marble_01.svg

261 ms

chevron-saga-blue.svg

chevron-saga-blue.svg

145 ms

location

location

69 ms

Ambit-Regular.woff

Ambit-Regular.woff

209 ms

Ambit-SemiBold.woff

Ambit-SemiBold.woff

179 ms

Ambit-Bold.woff

Ambit-Bold.woff

210 ms

Ambit-Black.woff

Ambit-Black.woff

401 ms

subslandingpage800x600nov23.jpg

subslandingpage800x600nov23.jpg

876 ms

saga-cruises-spirit-of-discovery-external-image-sunset.jpg

saga-cruises-spirit-of-discovery-external-image-sunset.jpg

953 ms

domaingroupcheck

domaingroupcheck

104 ms

car-claims-article-400x225.jpg

car-claims-article-400x225.jpg

777 ms

holidays.jpg

holidays.jpg

839 ms

car-renew-article-400x225.jpg

car-renew-article-400x225.jpg

765 ms

what-to-expect-from-a-touring-holiday.jpg

what-to-expect-from-a-touring-holiday.jpg

673 ms

vintage-valuables.jpg

vintage-valuables.jpg

676 ms

grouphomepageimage670x520jan24.jpg

grouphomepageimage670x520jan24.jpg

642 ms

saga_signifer_white_01.svg

saga_signifer_white_01.svg

672 ms

socialiconfacebook.png

socialiconfacebook.png

678 ms

socialicontwitter.png

socialicontwitter.png

672 ms

Accessibility Review

directchoice.co.uk accessibility score

93

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-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

Best Practices

directchoice.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

SEO Factors

directchoice.co.uk 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 Directchoice.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 Directchoice.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

directchoice.co.uk

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