Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

blindsdirect.co.uk

Blinds | Up to 70% Off Made To Measure Window Blinds | Blinds Direct

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

blindsdirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to blindsdirect.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Blinds Direct best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about blindsdirect.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blindsdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blindsdirect.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blindsdirect.co.uk

145 ms

www.blindsdirect.co.uk

215 ms

main.css

54 ms

home.css

51 ms

bugsnag.min.js

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Blindsdirect.co.uk, 66% (108 requests) were made to Img.interiorgoodsdirect.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Img.interiorgoodsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blindsdirect.co.uk main page is 3.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 302.4 kB

  • Original 342.1 kB
  • After minification 341.8 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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 302.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Blinds Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 193.7 kB
  • After minification 193.7 kB
  • After compression 191.6 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 0 B

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Blindsdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (28%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

108

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blinds 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blindsdirect.co.uk accessibility score

95

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blindsdirect.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blindsdirect.co.uk 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 Blindsdirect.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 Blindsdirect.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 data is detected on the main page of Blinds Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: