Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 40

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

planetdancedirect.co.uk

Dancewear & Dance Shoes, Kids Dancewear & More | Planet Dance

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

283 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Planet Dance Direct content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about planetdancedirect.co.uk

Planet dance is a leading UK dancewear store. We are home to dancewear, dance shoes and kids dancewear from leading brands, including So Danca, Capezio, Bloch & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Planetdancedirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 283 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

planetdancedirect.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

planetdancedirect.co.uk

283 ms

www.planetdance.com

1151 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

js

78 ms

js

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Planetdancedirect.co.uk, 74% (52 requests) were made to Planetdance.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Planetdance.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 640.6 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Planetdancedirect.co.uk main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 249.4 kB

  • Original 295.2 kB
  • After minification 288.4 kB
  • After compression 45.8 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 249.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 348.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Planet Dance Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 348.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 237.7 kB
  • After minification 237.7 kB
  • After compression 195.4 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 42.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Planetdancedirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Planet Dance 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

planetdancedirect.co.uk accessibility score

40

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

planetdancedirect.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

planetdancedirect.co.uk SEO score

81

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Planetdancedirect.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 Planetdancedirect.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 data is detected on the main page of Planet Dance Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: