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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

doorsdirect.co.za

Doors Direct

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

10.9 sec

Page Rendered

8.5 sec

doorsdirect.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit doorsdirect.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Doors Direct content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about doorsdirect.co.za

Improve your home with our high-quality wooden doors. We have a range of doors, frames, windows, and hardware. All products come at competitive prices!

Visit doorsdirect.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Doorsdirect.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 19.4 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.

Performance Metrics

doorsdirect.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

doorsdirect.co.za

2348 ms

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1973 ms

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2223 ms

conversion.js

17 ms

fbds.js

434 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Doorsdirect.co.za, 12% (5 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Doorsdirect.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 582.1 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

629.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Doorsdirect.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 701.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 9.7 kB, which is 23% 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 35.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 468.0 kB
  • After minification 434.6 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. Doors Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 513.6 kB

  • Original 701.9 kB
  • After minification 701.5 kB
  • After compression 188.3 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 513.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Doors 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

doorsdirect.co.za

doorsdirect.co.za

2348 ms

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hcs6l2trjunyjh5x1av87aaj64yjnrckb64evnrhelw1

1973 ms

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wj2nf6e8n4cr4gch6inolrh_morb_22xl3z2m8jk0ga1

2223 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

17 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

434 ms

brandmark.png

brandmark.png

468 ms

basket.png

basket.png

467 ms

deliver.png

deliver.png

481 ms

right-col-ad.gif

right-col-ad.gif

462 ms

4everframerightbanner3.jpg

4everframerightbanner3.jpg

507 ms

customsizes.png

customsizes.png

1770 ms

0005616.jpeg

0005616.jpeg

1770 ms

0005520.jpeg

0005520.jpeg

1741 ms

0005521.jpeg

0005521.jpeg

989 ms

0005615.jpeg

0005615.jpeg

988 ms

exterior-doors-2.jpg

exterior-doors-2.jpg

989 ms

interior-doors-2.jpg

interior-doors-2.jpg

1174 ms

veranda-doors-2.jpg

veranda-doors-2.jpg

1152 ms

door-frames-and-jambs.jpg

door-frames-and-jambs.jpg

1152 ms

specials-2.jpg

specials-2.jpg

1714 ms

door-hardware-2.jpg

door-hardware-2.jpg

1714 ms

wooden-windows-2.jpg

wooden-windows-2.jpg

1714 ms

composite-decking.jpg

composite-decking.jpg

1712 ms

miscellaneous.jpg

miscellaneous.jpg

1747 ms

931 ms

top-menu-divider.png

top-menu-divider.png

1487 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1356 ms

ajax_loader_small.gif

ajax_loader_small.gif

800 ms

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

797 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

1444 ms

OpenSans-ExtraBold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-ExtraBold-webfont.woff

1444 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

191 ms

2167 ms

1240 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

941 ms

751 ms

766 ms

collect

collect

77 ms

collect

collect

105 ms

37 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

261 ms

20 ms

Accessibility Review

doorsdirect.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

doorsdirect.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

doorsdirect.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Doorsdirect.co.za 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 Doorsdirect.co.za 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

doorsdirect.co.za

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