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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

godirect.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Godirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

godirect.co.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

godirect.co.uk

244 ms

www.godirect.co.uk

404 ms

mortgagea.css

81 ms

maint.css

162 ms

fpgodirect.css

231 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Godirect.co.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Godirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

976.0 kB

After Optimization

888.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Godirect.co.uk main page is 976.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 911.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 44.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.3 kB

  • Original 911.2 kB
  • After minification 871.9 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. Go Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 2.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Godirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (21%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

godirect.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

godirect.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

godirect.co.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Godirect.co.uk 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 Godirect.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 description is not detected on the main page of Go 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: