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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

staff-direct.co.uk

Temporary Staff Recruitment Agency | Hire Skilled Staff Fast - Staff Direct

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

267 ms

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About Website

Welcome to staff-direct.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Staff Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about staff-direct.co.uk

As a leading Temporary Recruitment Agency, Staff Direct provides businesses across the UK with vetted, immediate-start temporary staff for construction, warehouse, industrial, and catering roles. Simp...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Staff-direct.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2.9 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

staff-direct.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

staff-direct.co.uk

1279 ms

font-awesome.min.css

8 ms

styles.css

86 ms

style.css

136 ms

bootstrap.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Staff-direct.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Static.getclicky.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Staff-direct.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Staff-direct.co.uk main page is 3.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 4.9 kB, which is 12% 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 32.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Staff Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 207.7 kB

  • Original 317.1 kB
  • After minification 312.1 kB
  • After compression 109.4 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 207.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 295.3 kB

  • Original 352.2 kB
  • After minification 319.8 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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. Staff-direct.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 295.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Staff 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

staff-direct.co.uk

staff-direct.co.uk

1279 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

8 ms

styles.css

styles.css

86 ms

style.css

style.css

136 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

201 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

208 ms

font-awsome.css

font-awsome.css

168 ms

style.css

style.css

213 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

286 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

212 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

331 ms

jssor.slider.mini.js

jssor.slider.mini.js

272 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

271 ms

script.js

script.js

272 ms

zedity-reset.css

zedity-reset.css

306 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

418 ms

validate.js

validate.js

418 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

420 ms

zedity-responsive.min.js

zedity-responsive.min.js

426 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

397 ms

contanter.gif

contanter.gif

88 ms

logo-1.png

logo-1.png

75 ms

2-1.jpg

2-1.jpg

81 ms

find-out-more-bt.png

find-out-more-bt.png

73 ms

1-1.jpg

1-1.jpg

575 ms

5-1.jpg

5-1.jpg

170 ms

4-1.jpg

4-1.jpg

343 ms

3-1.jpg

3-1.jpg

405 ms

icon3.png

icon3.png

142 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

168 ms

icon2.png

icon2.png

210 ms

1-300x124.jpg

1-300x124.jpg

252 ms

medicalstaff-300x124-300x124.jpg

medicalstaff-300x124-300x124.jpg

252 ms

staffing-solution-300x124-300x124.jpg

staffing-solution-300x124-300x124.jpg

280 ms

unnamed%20(1).jpg

unnamed%20(1).jpg

335 ms

unnamed%20(3).jpg

unnamed%20(3).jpg

336 ms

unnamed%20(2).jpg

unnamed%20(2).jpg

349 ms

unnamed%20(5).jpg

unnamed%20(5).jpg

419 ms

unnamed.jpg

unnamed.jpg

418 ms

unnamed%20(4).jpg

unnamed%20(4).jpg

408 ms

js

js

23 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

775 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

23 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

449 ms

in.php

in.php

162 ms

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

89 ms

Accessibility Review

staff-direct.co.uk accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

staff-direct.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

staff-direct.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

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 Staff-direct.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 Staff-direct.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

staff-direct.co.uk

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