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contractorsdirect.com

Contractors Direct - Quality. Price. Service.

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractorsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractorsdirect.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.contractorsdirect.com

231 ms

cms.css

52 ms

cms.js

24 ms

Styles-0152c6589707.css

22 ms

secure.contractorsdirect.com

690 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Contractorsdirect.com, 7% (1 request) were made to Secure.contractorsdirect.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (690 ms) relates to the external source Secure.contractorsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (74%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

379.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractorsdirect.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. 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 9.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 915.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 342.6 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 915.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 167.9 kB

  • Original 200.1 kB
  • After minification 193.3 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Contractorsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 167.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (50%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contractors 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.contractorsdirect.com

www.contractorsdirect.com

231 ms

cms.css

cms.css

52 ms

cms.js

cms.js

24 ms

Styles-0152c6589707.css

Styles-0152c6589707.css

22 ms

secure.contractorsdirect.com

secure.contractorsdirect.com

690 ms

sc.environment.ssp

sc.environment.ssp

270 ms

en_US.js

en_US.js

240 ms

Libraries-0152c65874b5.js

Libraries-0152c65874b5.js

242 ms

Templates-0152c6589b48.js

Templates-0152c6589b48.js

240 ms

Application-0152c6585a61.js

Application-0152c6585a61.js

242 ms

sc.user.environment.ssp

sc.user.environment.ssp

440 ms

css

css

301 ms

domain

domain

204 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

20 ms

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

51 ms

SEO Factors

contractorsdirect.com SEO score

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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 Contractorsdirect.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 Contractorsdirect.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 description is not detected on the main page of Contractors 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: