Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

livingdirect.com

Living Direct | A Ferguson Enterprise

Page Load Speed

46.6 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

28.4 sec

Page Rendered

18 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livingdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 46.3 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. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

livingdirect.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.192

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livingdirect.com

237 ms

www.livingdirect.com

1831 ms

livingdirect.css

828 ms

blddstlfj.js

682 ms

font-awesome.min.css

2102 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Livingdirect.com, 85% (75 requests) were made to S3.img-b.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) relates to the external source S3.img-b.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 955.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Livingdirect.com main page is 3.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 81.0 kB

  • Original 106.6 kB
  • After minification 105.6 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 81.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 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. Living Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 571.4 kB

  • Original 859.0 kB
  • After minification 852.2 kB
  • After compression 287.7 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 571.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 264.3 kB

  • Original 319.8 kB
  • After minification 317.8 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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. Livingdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 264.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (4%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Living 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

livingdirect.com accessibility score

83

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

livingdirect.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

livingdirect.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Livingdirect.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 Livingdirect.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

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