Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

laptopsdirect.co.uk

Laptops Direct - Laptops | PCs | Monitors | Tablets | Phones

Page Load Speed

43.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

27.7 sec

Page Rendered

14.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laptopsdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 42.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laptopsdirect.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.laptopsdirect.co.uk

1132 ms

wishlist.css

1240 ms

recentlyviewed.css

1478 ms

master_styles.css

1480 ms

template_styles.css

811 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Laptopsdirect.co.uk, 14% (20 requests) were made to Scriptsld.buyitdirect.co.uk and 9% (13 requests) were made to Contentld.buyitdirect.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7 sec) relates to the external source Skynet.reevoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 MB (48%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Laptopsdirect.co.uk main page is 6.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 252.0 kB
  • After minification 218.3 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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 33.8 kB, which is 13% 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 218.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 119.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 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. Laptops Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB
  • After compression 864.0 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 2.2 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 558.8 kB

  • Original 660.1 kB
  • After minification 487.7 kB
  • After compression 101.3 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. Laptopsdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 558.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (43%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

81

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laptops 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

laptopsdirect.co.uk accessibility score

72

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

laptopsdirect.co.uk 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

laptopsdirect.co.uk SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Laptopsdirect.co.uk 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 Laptopsdirect.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Laptops Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: