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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

languages-direct.com

Languages Direct | Audio Magazines, Language Courses & More

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

802 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Languages Direct content for Russia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about languages-direct.com

Languages Direct is an online shop for people who want to learn a language. Buy your audio magazines, audio books, language courses & more today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Languages-direct.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 2.9 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

languages-direct.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

languages-direct.com

86 ms

www.languages-direct.com

435 ms

calendar.css

20 ms

styles-m.css

51 ms

styles-l.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Languages-direct.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (435 ms) belongs to the original domain Languages-direct.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

824.8 kB

After Optimization

673.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Languages-direct.com main page is 824.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 298.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 146.3 kB

  • Original 169.8 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 146.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 271.6 kB
  • After minification 271.6 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. Languages Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 298.9 kB
  • After minification 298.9 kB
  • After compression 294.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 84.6 kB
  • After compression 84.5 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. Languages-direct.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 130 (86%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Languages 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 119 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

languages-direct.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

languages-direct.com 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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

languages-direct.com SEO score

83

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

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 Languages-direct.com 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 Languages-direct.com 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 Languages Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: