Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

268 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Burlingtondirect.info page load time and found that the first response time was 268 ms and then it took 1.6 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

burlingtondirect.info performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.burlingtondirect.info

268 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

27 ms

city_fonts_12_01_15.css

68 ms

city-products_14_11_27.css

77 ms

city-toplvl_16_03_14.css

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Burlingtondirect.info, 10% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (314 ms) belongs to the original domain Burlingtondirect.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

805.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Burlingtondirect.info main page is 1.2 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 779.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 203.2 kB

  • Original 227.9 kB
  • After minification 190.1 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 37.8 kB, which is 17% 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 203.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 779.8 kB
  • After minification 708.2 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. Burlingtondirect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 122.1 kB

  • Original 189.6 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 67.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 122.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Burlingtondirect.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (25%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Burlingtondirect. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

burlingtondirect.info 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

burlingtondirect.info best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

burlingtondirect.info SEO score

69

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Burlingtondirect.info 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 Burlingtondirect.info 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 Burlingtondirect. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: