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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 60

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

usdirectexpress.com

Direct Express®

Page Load Speed

699 ms in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

597 ms

Page Rendered

88 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usdirectexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 685 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usdirectexpress.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usdirectexpress.com

14 ms

www.usdirectexpress.com

44 ms

css

46 ms

bootstrap.css

25 ms

all.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Usdirectexpress.com, 28% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

990.0 kB

After Optimization

687.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usdirectexpress.com main page is 990.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 590.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 150.1 kB

  • Original 163.8 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 91.3 kB, which is 56% 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 150.1 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 590.6 kB
  • After minification 583.5 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. Us Direct Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 80.5 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 133.7 kB
  • After compression 61.3 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 80.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Usdirectexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (30%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Us Direct Express. 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

usdirectexpress.com accessibility score

98

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

Best Practices

usdirectexpress.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

usdirectexpress.com SEO score

60

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

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 doesn't use 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 Usdirectexpress.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 Usdirectexpress.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 description is not detected on the main page of Us Direct Express. 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: