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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thedirect.com

The Direct | Latest Movie, TV & Streaming News

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

872 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit thedirect.com now to see the best up-to-date The Direct content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thedirect.com

The Direct is a leading entertainment news site covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters and streaming platforms. From Marvel, DC, and Star Wars to hit series on Disney+, Netflix, HBO,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedirect.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedirect.com

22 ms

thedirect.com

243 ms

pure-min-thedirect.css

79 ms

grids-responsive-min.css

61 ms

styles_beskar_3.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Thedirect.com, 77% (57 requests) were made to Images.thedirect.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Thedirect.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (243 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

948.3 kB

After Optimization

710.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedirect.com main page is 948.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 629.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 162.5 kB

  • Original 181.7 kB
  • After minification 121.9 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 59.8 kB, which is 33% 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 162.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 88 B

  • Original 629.6 kB
  • After minification 629.6 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. The Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 60.9 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 50.4 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 10.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Thedirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

62

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 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.

Network Requests Diagram

thedirect.com

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22 ms

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243 ms

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79 ms

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61 ms

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82 ms

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52 ms

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48 ms

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36 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

thedirect.com accessibility score

86

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

thedirect.com 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thedirect.com SEO score

100

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

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 Thedirect.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 Thedirect.com 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

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