Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

directsattv.com

DIRECTV | #1 Satellite TV Service | 855-497-7586

Page Load Speed

65.8 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

38 sec

Page Rendered

27.5 sec

directsattv.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directsattv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 65.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 4 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

directsattv.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,170 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directsattv.com

309 ms

www.usdirect.com

1198 ms

81f9c855-688d-4f80-989f-e565810c61d4.css

950 ms

306693063.site.css

1319 ms

jquery.min.js

1056 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Directsattv.com, 30% (10 requests) were made to D1sfco99flnudn.cloudfront.net and 18% (6 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

706.3 kB

After Optimization

348.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Directsattv.com main page is 706.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 283.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 26.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 215.2 kB
  • After minification 215.2 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. Directsat TV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 82.1 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 172.2 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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 82.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 249.5 kB

  • Original 283.4 kB
  • After minification 283.1 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. Directsattv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (33%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directsat TV. 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.

Accessibility Review

directsattv.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

directsattv.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

directsattv.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 doesn't use 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 Directsattv.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 Directsattv.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 Directsat TV. 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: