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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

chemdirect.com

Fine Chemical Supply | Buy & Sell 400,000+ Chemicals | ChemDirect

Page Load Speed

425 ms in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

257 ms

Page Rendered

60 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chemdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 317 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chemdirect.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chemdirect.com

108 ms

www.chemdirect.com

33 ms

maintenance.css

3 ms

css

35 ms

MaintenanceIcon.svg

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Chemdirect.com, 17% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (108 ms) belongs to the original domain Chemdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 797 B (55%)

Content Size

1.4 kB

After Optimization

643 B

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chemdirect.com main page is 1.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 724 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 297 B

  • Original 724 B
  • After minification 697 B
  • After compression 427 B

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 297 B or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 500 B

  • Original 716 B
  • After minification 471 B
  • After compression 216 B

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. Chemdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 500 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chem Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

chemdirect.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

chemdirect.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

chemdirect.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chemdirect.com 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 Chemdirect.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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