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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

cabdirect.org

CAB Direct

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

442 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cabdirect.org page load time and found that the first response time was 442 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cabdirect.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cabdirect.org

442 ms

cabi.css

252 ms

combo

8 ms

modernizr.js

170 ms

combo

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Cabdirect.org, 10% (2 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (442 ms) belongs to the original domain Cabdirect.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.5 kB (65%)

Content Size

147.6 kB

After Optimization

51.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cabdirect.org main page is 147.6 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 68.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 12.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 68.0 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 33.6 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. Cabdirect.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (72%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CAB 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cabdirect.org accessibility score

82

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

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

cabdirect.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cabdirect.org SEO score

74

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cabdirect.org 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 Cabdirect.org 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

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