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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

directlinestructures.co.uk

Steel Frame Design and Build Specialists in Kent and SE

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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About Website

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South East's leading steel frame design and build specialists for Education, Commercial, Community and Industrial

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directlinestructures.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directlinestructures.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.212

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directlinestructures.co.uk

251 ms

www.directlinestructures.co.uk

1010 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

83 ms

style.min.css

167 ms

theme.min.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Directlinestructures.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Directlinestructures.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directlinestructures.co.uk 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 26.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Directlinestructures images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 65.9 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 52.3 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. Directlinestructures.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (51%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directlinestructures. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directlinestructures.co.uk

directlinestructures.co.uk

251 ms

www.directlinestructures.co.uk

www.directlinestructures.co.uk

1010 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

83 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

167 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

244 ms

styles.css

styles.css

246 ms

social_widget.css

social_widget.css

243 ms

style.css

style.css

245 ms

style.css

style.css

331 ms

css

css

42 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

250 ms

afg.css

afg.css

324 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

326 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

413 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

327 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

338 ms

mycolorbox.js

mycolorbox.js

406 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

409 ms

uk-cookie-consent-js.js

uk-cookie-consent-js.js

409 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

451 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

412 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

487 ms

DLS-LOGO-2C-SPOTS2.jpg

DLS-LOGO-2C-SPOTS2.jpg

165 ms

cropped-DSC09420-a-1-2400x845.gif

cropped-DSC09420-a-1-2400x845.gif

500 ms

Education.jpg

Education.jpg

159 ms

Community.jpg

Community.jpg

160 ms

Industrial.jpg

Industrial.jpg

159 ms

Commercial.jpg

Commercial.jpg

160 ms

IMG_20170419_130610-150x150.jpg

IMG_20170419_130610-150x150.jpg

161 ms

render-5-311016-150x150.jpg

render-5-311016-150x150.jpg

161 ms

IMG_5991-150x150.jpg

IMG_5991-150x150.jpg

237 ms

UKAS-ISOQAR-Mark-cl-27_CMYK-400x259.jpg

UKAS-ISOQAR-Mark-cl-27_CMYK-400x259.jpg

237 ms

aci.js

aci.js

395 ms

font

font

14 ms

font

font

25 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

84 ms

controls.png

controls.png

85 ms

border.png

border.png

84 ms

loading_background.png

loading_background.png

83 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

165 ms

Education.jpg

Education.jpg

571 ms

Community.jpg

Community.jpg

410 ms

Industrial.jpg

Industrial.jpg

497 ms

Commercial.jpg

Commercial.jpg

408 ms

render-5-311016-150x150.jpg

render-5-311016-150x150.jpg

170 ms

IMG_20170419_130610-150x150.jpg

IMG_20170419_130610-150x150.jpg

251 ms

IMG_5991-150x150.jpg

IMG_5991-150x150.jpg

260 ms

UKAS-ISOQAR-Mark-cl-27_CMYK-400x259.jpg

UKAS-ISOQAR-Mark-cl-27_CMYK-400x259.jpg

421 ms

Accessibility Review

directlinestructures.co.uk accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

directlinestructures.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

directlinestructures.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 Directlinestructures.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 Directlinestructures.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

directlinestructures.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Directlinestructures. 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: