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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

brokerdirect.co.uk

Insurance, Motor, Home, Travel & Business Cover - Broker Direct Plc

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

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About Website

Visit brokerdirect.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Broker Direct content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about brokerdirect.co.uk

Broker Direct Plc works with some of the world's leading insurers to offer you competitive Personal and Commercial insurance products..

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brokerdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brokerdirect.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,400 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brokerdirect.co.uk

27 ms

www.brokerdirect.co.uk

594 ms

js

78 ms

styles.css

553 ms

easy-sidebar-menu-widget.css

518 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Brokerdirect.co.uk, 13% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Brokerdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brokerdirect.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 599.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 137.8 kB

  • Original 170.1 kB
  • After minification 167.9 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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 137.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 499.0 kB
  • After minification 493.8 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. Broker Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 599.9 kB
  • After minification 599.9 kB
  • After compression 597.5 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 267.3 kB
  • After minification 267.3 kB
  • After compression 252.0 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. Brokerdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (83%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Broker 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 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brokerdirect.co.uk

brokerdirect.co.uk

27 ms

www.brokerdirect.co.uk

www.brokerdirect.co.uk

594 ms

js

js

78 ms

styles.css

styles.css

553 ms

easy-sidebar-menu-widget.css

easy-sidebar-menu-widget.css

518 ms

front.css

front.css

554 ms

job-listings.css

job-listings.css

520 ms

be.css

be.css

560 ms

animations.min.css

animations.min.css

548 ms

fontawesome.css

fontawesome.css

989 ms

jplayer.blue.monday.min.css

jplayer.blue.monday.min.css

999 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

994 ms

css

css

51 ms

default.css

default.css

1035 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

983 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

1014 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

1456 ms

post-12921.css

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1454 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

1486 ms

global.css

global.css

1434 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

1457 ms

css

css

59 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1900 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1911 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

1889 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

1909 ms

front.js

front.js

1910 ms

js

js

81 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

1513 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

2007 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

2363 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

2369 ms

elementor.css

elementor.css

2375 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

2348 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

2430 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

2456 ms

index.js

index.js

2787 ms

index.js

index.js

2801 ms

jquery.easy-sidebar-menu-widget.min.js

jquery.easy-sidebar-menu-widget.min.js

2803 ms

inspector.js

inspector.js

2807 ms

api.js

api.js

80 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

2825 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

2433 ms

debouncedresize.min.js

debouncedresize.min.js

2718 ms

magnificpopup.min.js

magnificpopup.min.js

2703 ms

menu.js

menu.js

2736 ms

visible.min.js

visible.min.js

2701 ms

animations.min.js

animations.min.js

2722 ms

jplayer.min.js

jplayer.min.js

2411 ms

enllax.min.js

enllax.min.js

2716 ms

translate3d.js

translate3d.js

2731 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

2753 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

2733 ms

index.js

index.js

2788 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

2447 ms

vc-waypoints.min.js

vc-waypoints.min.js

2742 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

2745 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

2756 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

2719 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

2783 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

2876 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

2809 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

2743 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

2791 ms

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2749 ms

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2854 ms

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121 ms

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122 ms

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195 ms

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212 ms

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2889 ms

bootstrapper.js

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150 ms

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73 ms

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74 ms

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88 ms

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87 ms

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87 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

2744 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

2773 ms

icons.woff

icons.woff

2769 ms

dummy.png

dummy.png

2770 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

2950 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

3003 ms

Broker-Direct-Plc-About-Us-H.jpg

Broker-Direct-Plc-About-Us-H.jpg

2830 ms

Broker-Direct-Plc-Contact-Us-H.jpg

Broker-Direct-Plc-Contact-Us-H.jpg

2820 ms

Broker-Direct-Plc-Careers-H.jpg

Broker-Direct-Plc-Careers-H.jpg

2893 ms

testimonials-placeholder.png

testimonials-placeholder.png

2886 ms

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Broker-Direct-Plc-CII-Insurer.jpg

3073 ms

Broker-Direct-Plc-MGAA.jpg

Broker-Direct-Plc-MGAA.jpg

2998 ms

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2911 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

brokerdirect.co.uk accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

brokerdirect.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

brokerdirect.co.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Brokerdirect.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 Brokerdirect.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

brokerdirect.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Broker Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: