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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

greendirectory.co.uk

Green Directory - UK's Green Business Directory

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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About Website

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

Green Directory is the official Green Directory of the UK and has the largest selection of Green, Eco, Sustainable, Fair Trade and Environmentally Friendly Companies, Products and Services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greendirectory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greendirectory.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,040 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greendirectory.co.uk

480 ms

www.greendirectory.co.uk

478 ms

www.greendirectory.co.uk

1178 ms

all.css

53 ms

form.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Greendirectory.co.uk, 30% (14 requests) were made to Css.greendirectory.co.uk and 11% (5 requests) were made to Js.greendirectory.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Greendirectory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

288.1 kB

After Optimization

191.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greendirectory.co.uk main page is 288.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 164.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 45.4 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 8.3 kB, which is 18% 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 36.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 72.3 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. Green Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 164.0 kB
  • After minification 164.0 kB
  • After compression 105.1 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 58.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Greendirectory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Green Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greendirectory.co.uk

greendirectory.co.uk

480 ms

www.greendirectory.co.uk

www.greendirectory.co.uk

478 ms

www.greendirectory.co.uk

www.greendirectory.co.uk

1178 ms

all.css

all.css

53 ms

form.css

form.css

63 ms

form.js

form.js

62 ms

png-for-ie.js

png-for-ie.js

72 ms

pop-up.js

pop-up.js

85 ms

focus_blur.js

focus_blur.js

85 ms

custom.js

custom.js

86 ms

UK-all.css

UK-all.css

76 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

109 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

bg-body.gif

bg-body.gif

22 ms

find.gif

find.gif

61 ms

AES-Solar-Ltd.gif

AES-Solar-Ltd.gif

79 ms

ECOshopdirect.gif

ECOshopdirect.gif

87 ms

Babys-Best.gif

Babys-Best.gif

100 ms

Eco-Carpet-Care.gif

Eco-Carpet-Care.gif

101 ms

go.gif

go.gif

55 ms

free_home.gif

free_home.gif

60 ms

icn-facebook.gif

icn-facebook.gif

55 ms

icn-twitter.gif

icn-twitter.gif

55 ms

btn-subscribe.gif

btn-subscribe.gif

54 ms

p.gif

p.gif

61 ms

hp_div.gif

hp_div.gif

61 ms

au.gif

au.gif

60 ms

usa.gif

usa.gif

61 ms

uk.gif

uk.gif

61 ms

nz.gif

nz.gif

71 ms

ca.gif

ca.gif

71 ms

za.gif

za.gif

71 ms

india.gif

india.gif

70 ms

asia.gif

asia.gif

68 ms

bg-mid-page-1.gif

bg-mid-page-1.gif

52 ms

bg-bot-page-1.gif

bg-bot-page-1.gif

52 ms

bg-top-page-1-gd.jpg

bg-top-page-1-gd.jpg

60 ms

bg-search.gif

bg-search.gif

55 ms

bg-line.gif

bg-line.gif

55 ms

bg-input.gif

bg-input.gif

59 ms

bg-add.png

bg-add.png

58 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

58 ms

bg-subscribe-hp.jpg

bg-subscribe-hp.jpg

59 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

159 ms

sep-foot.gif

sep-foot.gif

47 ms

collect

collect

18 ms

js

js

61 ms

Accessibility Review

greendirectory.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

greendirectory.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

greendirectory.co.uk SEO score

71

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

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 Greendirectory.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 Greendirectory.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

greendirectory.co.uk

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