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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

directorycritic.com

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Page Load Speed

22.3 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

15.1 sec

Page Rendered

6.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directorycritic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 22.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directorycritic.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directorycritic.com

182 ms

www.directorycritic.com

988 ms

css

313 ms

css

313 ms

css

314 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Directorycritic.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 881.6 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

642.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directorycritic.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 926.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 15.0 kB, which is 30% 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 42.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 271.5 kB
  • After minification 250.8 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. Directory Critic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 581.4 kB

  • Original 926.6 kB
  • After minification 847.0 kB
  • After compression 345.2 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 581.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 236.7 kB

  • Original 275.5 kB
  • After minification 220.3 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. Directorycritic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 236.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (69%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directory Critic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directorycritic.com

directorycritic.com

182 ms

www.directorycritic.com

www.directorycritic.com

988 ms

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313 ms

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313 ms

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Accessibility Review

directorycritic.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

directorycritic.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

directorycritic.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

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Directorycritic.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 Directorycritic.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

directorycritic.com

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