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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

websitedirectory.co.uk

Website Directory | Human Edited Directory of UK Websites

Page Load Speed

23.3 sec in total

First Response

463 ms

Resources Loaded

22 sec

Page Rendered

828 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Websitedirectory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 463 ms and then it took 22.8 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

websitedirectory.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

websitedirectory.co.uk

463 ms

www.websitedirectory.co.uk

604 ms

common.css

280 ms

signup.css

284 ms

popuphelp.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Websitedirectory.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source .

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.8 kB (54%)

Content Size

313.6 kB

After Optimization

144.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Websitedirectory.co.uk main page is 313.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 185.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 17.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 78.0 kB
  • After minification 73.1 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. Website Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 185.0 kB
  • After minification 169.1 kB
  • After compression 62.2 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 122.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Websitedirectory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (26%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Website Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

websitedirectory.co.uk

websitedirectory.co.uk

463 ms

www.websitedirectory.co.uk

www.websitedirectory.co.uk

604 ms

common.css

common.css

280 ms

signup.css

signup.css

284 ms

popuphelp.css

popuphelp.css

283 ms

getlisted.css

getlisted.css

288 ms

results.css

results.css

278 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

615 ms

jquery.roundabout.min.js

jquery.roundabout.min.js

429 ms

website.js

website.js

644 ms

autoformat.js

autoformat.js

428 ms

screengrabber.js

screengrabber.js

20274 ms

ZeroClipboard.js

ZeroClipboard.js

413 ms

ga.js

ga.js

272 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

414 ms

pagewrapbg_top.png

pagewrapbg_top.png

425 ms

pagewrapbg.png

pagewrapbg.png

414 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

379 ms

arrow_right.gif

arrow_right.gif

375 ms

www_leakerdirect_co_uk_xlarge.jpg

www_leakerdirect_co_uk_xlarge.jpg

606 ms

_xlarge.jpg

_xlarge.jpg

527 ms

search_img.png

search_img.png

515 ms

_thumb.jpg

_thumb.jpg

519 ms

www_domainaftermarket_co_uk_thumb.jpg

www_domainaftermarket_co_uk_thumb.jpg

499 ms

www_e-commercewebsitedesign_me_uk_thumb.jpg

www_e-commercewebsitedesign_me_uk_thumb.jpg

531 ms

www_britchops_co_uk_thumb.jpg

www_britchops_co_uk_thumb.jpg

641 ms

www_centralsoftware_com_thumb.jpg

www_centralsoftware_com_thumb.jpg

645 ms

list_bullet.png

list_bullet.png

634 ms

follow_icon_w.jpg

follow_icon_w.jpg

648 ms

follow_icon_twitter.jpg

follow_icon_twitter.jpg

645 ms

follow_icon_fb.jpg

follow_icon_fb.jpg

699 ms

follow_icon_g.jpg

follow_icon_g.jpg

725 ms

follow_icon_mail.jpg

follow_icon_mail.jpg

727 ms

icon.jpg

icon.jpg

736 ms

buttonbg.png

buttonbg.png

693 ms

getlistedbg.gif

getlistedbg.gif

602 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

48 ms

Accessibility Review

websitedirectory.co.uk accessibility score

54

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

Best Practices

websitedirectory.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

websitedirectory.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Websitedirectory.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 Websitedirectory.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

websitedirectory.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Website Directory. 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: