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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

courierdirect.co.uk

National Same Day Courier Service | Courier Direct

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Courierdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

courierdirect.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

courierdirect.co.uk

160 ms

courierdirect.co.uk

457 ms

main2.css

161 ms

css

59 ms

font-awesome.min.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Courierdirect.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (889 ms) belongs to the original domain Courierdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Courierdirect.co.uk main page is 5.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.1 kB, which is 12% 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 26.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 85.3 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.7 MB

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. Courier Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 572 B

  • Original 47.4 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 266 B

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Courierdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (25%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Courier 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

Accessibility Review

courierdirect.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

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

courierdirect.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

courierdirect.co.uk SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Courierdirect.co.uk 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 Courierdirect.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Courier Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: