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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

underlay-direct.uk

Underlay Direct | UK’s best selection of underlay and flooring

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

55 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Underlay Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about underlay-direct.uk

Largest selection of underlay and flooring, Underlay direct have an extensive online range of underlay, vinyl and accessories. Shop now for amazing value.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Underlay-direct.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

underlay-direct.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.628

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.underlay-direct.uk

1056 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Underlay-direct.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Underlay-direct.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

852.3 kB

After Optimization

806.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Underlay-direct.uk main page is 852.3 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 574.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 182 B
  • After minification 182 B
  • After compression 130 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 52 B or 29% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 574.5 kB
  • After minification 547.6 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. Underlay Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 252.4 kB
  • After minification 252.4 kB
  • After compression 239.5 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Underlay-direct.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

underlay-direct.uk accessibility score

82

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

underlay-direct.uk best practices score

58

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

underlay-direct.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Underlay-direct.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 Underlay-direct.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 Underlay 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: