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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

csgdirect.com

Your Multi-Channel Direct Marketing Partner | CSG Direct

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

739 ms

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Csgdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 988 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

csgdirect.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.csgdirect.com

205 ms

2009_csg.css

51 ms

43140.js

126 ms

Feed_24x24.png

29 ms

CSG-Direct-Mail.jpg

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Csgdirect.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Connct-9.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (210 ms) belongs to the original domain Csgdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

457.3 kB

After Optimization

415.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Csgdirect.com main page is 457.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 408.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 21.7 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 18.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 408.0 kB
  • After minification 392.9 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. CSG Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-88%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Csgdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CSG Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.csgdirect.com

www.csgdirect.com

205 ms

2009_csg.css

2009_csg.css

51 ms

43140.js

43140.js

126 ms

Feed_24x24.png

Feed_24x24.png

29 ms

CSG-Direct-Mail.jpg

CSG-Direct-Mail.jpg

85 ms

ga.js

ga.js

25 ms

tabs.png

tabs.png

63 ms

Direct-Mailing-House.jpg

Direct-Mailing-House.jpg

128 ms

quote-on.gif

quote-on.gif

63 ms

blog-on.gif

blog-on.gif

80 ms

As-seen-as-csgdirectcom.jpg

As-seen-as-csgdirectcom.jpg

194 ms

box.gif

box.gif

62 ms

direct-mail-75.png

direct-mail-75.png

111 ms

database-marketing-75.png

database-marketing-75.png

79 ms

casino-marketing-75.png

casino-marketing-75.png

111 ms

direct-mail-printing-75.png

direct-mail-printing-75.png

131 ms

direct-mail-maps-75.png

direct-mail-maps-75.png

106 ms

US-Bulk-Mail-Tracking-75.png

US-Bulk-Mail-Tracking-75.png

133 ms

BBB.png

BBB.png

138 ms

NIGA.png

NIGA.png

165 ms

GCA.png

GCA.png

151 ms

PCC.png

PCC.png

156 ms

gonnahappen.png

gonnahappen.png

158 ms

EPS.png

EPS.png

165 ms

boost.png

boost.png

177 ms

bet-raving-knows.png

bet-raving-knows.png

181 ms

CSG-quotes-h.png

CSG-quotes-h.png

210 ms

FaceBook_32x32.png

FaceBook_32x32.png

190 ms

Twitter_32x32.png

Twitter_32x32.png

191 ms

Youtube_32x32.png

Youtube_32x32.png

203 ms

Feed_32x32.png

Feed_32x32.png

205 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

Accessibility Review

csgdirect.com accessibility score

74

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.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

SEO Factors

csgdirect.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Csgdirect.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 Csgdirect.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

csgdirect.com

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