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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

flashingsdirect.com

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flashingsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 2.8 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

flashingsdirect.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flashingsdirect.com

155 ms

flashingsdirect.com

398 ms

css

173 ms

font-awesome.min.css

210 ms

styles.css

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Flashingsdirect.com, 17% (16 requests) were made to Cdn9.bigcommerce.com and 16% (15 requests) were made to I.shgcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source I.shgcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

817.1 kB

After Optimization

647.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flashingsdirect.com main page is 817.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 364.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.0 kB, which is 21% 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 61.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 359.1 kB
  • After minification 339.8 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. Flashings Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 84.2 kB

  • Original 364.9 kB
  • After minification 364.8 kB
  • After compression 280.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 84.2 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Flashingsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (79%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flashings Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flashingsdirect.com

flashingsdirect.com

155 ms

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398 ms

css

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173 ms

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font-awesome.min.css

210 ms

styles.css

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202 ms

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iselector.css

188 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

209 ms

slide-show.css

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183 ms

styles-slide-show.css

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217 ms

social.css

social.css

184 ms

styles.css

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233 ms

light.css

light.css

223 ms

theme.css

theme.css

216 ms

grid.css

grid.css

227 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

220 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

262 ms

custom.css

custom.css

262 ms

product.attributes.css

product.attributes.css

198 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

187 ms

product.quickview.css

product.quickview.css

238 ms

imodal.css

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205 ms

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227 ms

jquery.min.js

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179 ms

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204 ms

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215 ms

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225 ms

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228 ms

matchMedia.js

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211 ms

common.js

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213 ms

jquery.autobox.js

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261 ms

init.js

init.js

259 ms

jquery.uniform.min.js

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236 ms

main.js

main.js

166 ms

quicksearch.js

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216 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

302 ms

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225 ms

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260 ms

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234 ms

product.attributes.js

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257 ms

quickview.js

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233 ms

quickview.initialise.js

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259 ms

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260 ms

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261 ms

loader.js

loader.js

219 ms

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295 ms

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295 ms

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295 ms

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176 ms

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379 ms

searchIcon.png

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96 ms

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86 ms

ecommerce.js

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94 ms

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113 ms

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180 ms

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214 ms

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113 ms

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109 ms

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105 ms

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86 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

flashingsdirect.com accessibility score

64

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

flashingsdirect.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

flashingsdirect.com SEO score

73

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flashingsdirect.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Flashingsdirect.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

flashingsdirect.com

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