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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% 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

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

coverdirect.com

Cover Direct | Specialists in UK life insurance and protection

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

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About Website

Welcome to coverdirect.com homepage info - get ready to check Cover Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about coverdirect.com

We’re real people, passionate about life insurance and protection, providing vital financial support to families up and down the country when they need it most.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coverdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 355 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coverdirect.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coverdirect.com

355 ms

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

all.min.css

42 ms

navigation.css

104 ms

style.css

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Coverdirect.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (553 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.cookie-script.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

106.8 kB

After Optimization

61.9 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Coverdirect.com main page is 106.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 53.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 13.8 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 4.8 kB, which is 35% 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 10.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Coverdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (33%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cover 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

coverdirect.com

coverdirect.com

355 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

42 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

104 ms

style.css

style.css

263 ms

js

js

74 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

55 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

38 ms

e78bd6cba8becdce94e16e964d2d12f3.js

e78bd6cba8becdce94e16e964d2d12f3.js

553 ms

custom.js

custom.js

246 ms

white-logo.webp

white-logo.webp

126 ms

banner.webp

banner.webp

295 ms

white-border.webp

white-border.webp

126 ms

doing-after.webp

doing-after.webp

208 ms

doing.webp

doing.webp

214 ms

vision-before.webp

vision-before.webp

291 ms

reshaping-before.webp

reshaping-before.webp

307 ms

reshaping.webp

reshaping.webp

289 ms

favicon.webp

favicon.webp

297 ms

story-img.webp

story-img.webp

300 ms

partners1.webp

partners1.webp

374 ms

partners2.webp

partners2.webp

373 ms

partners3.webp

partners3.webp

378 ms

main-logo.webp

main-logo.webp

389 ms

gothicb0-webfont.woff

gothicb0-webfont.woff

347 ms

gothic-webfont.woff

gothic-webfont.woff

448 ms

Accessibility Review

coverdirect.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.

Best Practices

coverdirect.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

coverdirect.com SEO score

77

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 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 Coverdirect.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 Coverdirect.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

coverdirect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cover 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: