Access safetydirect.ie. Gloves | Footwear | Protective Workwear | First Aid Supplies | Safety products

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.226

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

www.safetydirect.ie

472 ms

961ccd7df0593a16c9ba78806a2f2e41.css

262 ms

styles-l.css

351 ms

844d524a7ac00fa8ea2a588bf48b0fd4.min.js

365 ms

73ec1cee3c56fc290336add9848afe0c.js

479 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Safetydirect.ie, 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.cookie-script.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Safetydirect.ie.

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Safetydirect.ie main page is 3.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 304.1 kB

Original 348.0 kB
After minification 322.3 kB
After compression 43.9 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 304.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 217.4 kB

Original 3.4 MB
After minification 3.2 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. Safety Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 580 B

Original 42.5 kB
After minification 42.5 kB
After compression 41.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 127.5 kB

Original 159.0 kB
After minification 31.6 kB
After compression 31.5 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. Safetydirect.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 127.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Safety 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 Issues

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.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

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

High

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

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

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

High

Document doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Safetydirect.ie 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 Safetydirect.ie 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

safetydirect.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Safety 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Gloves | Footwear | Protective Workwear | First Aid Supplies | Safety products | Fire protection

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

www.safetydirect.ie

961ccd7df0593a16c9ba78806a2f2e41.css

styles-l.css

844d524a7ac00fa8ea2a588bf48b0fd4.min.js

73ec1cee3c56fc290336add9848afe0c.js

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

www.safetydirect.ie

961ccd7df0593a16c9ba78806a2f2e41.css

styles-l.css

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font-awesome.min.css

snippet.js

print.css

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