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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

coverdirect.net

Cover Direct | Specialists in UK life insurance and protection

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

372 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cover Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about coverdirect.net

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.net page load time and found that the first response time was 372 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coverdirect.net performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,140 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coverdirect.com

372 ms

hpv1vnl.css

112 ms

all.min.css

39 ms

style.min.css

28 ms

styles.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Coverdirect.net, 16% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) relates to the external source Coverdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Coverdirect.net main page is 4.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 77.7 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 62.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Cover Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 577.2 kB
  • After minification 577.2 kB
  • After compression 575.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 75.2 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.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (35%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

coverdirect.com

coverdirect.com

372 ms

hpv1vnl.css

hpv1vnl.css

112 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

39 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

28 ms

styles.css

styles.css

28 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

34 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

30 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

42 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

42 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

45 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

48 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

56 ms

index.js

index.js

56 ms

index.js

index.js

76 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

102 ms

api.js

api.js

47 ms

index.js

index.js

60 ms

p.css

p.css

24 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

183 ms

cover-direct-logo-light.svg

cover-direct-logo-light.svg

41 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

30 ms

arrows-bg.svg

arrows-bg.svg

26 ms

trustpilot-horizontal-white.svg

trustpilot-horizontal-white.svg

20 ms

trustpilot-stars.svg

trustpilot-stars.svg

23 ms

cd-man.jpg

cd-man.jpg

149 ms

ed-cover-direct.jpg

ed-cover-direct.jpg

141 ms

featured-card-bg.jpg

featured-card-bg.jpg

144 ms

zurich.svg

zurich.svg

141 ms

vitality-logo.png

vitality-logo.png

222 ms

the-exeter-insurance-insurer-logo.svg

the-exeter-insurance-insurer-logo.svg

144 ms

SF-logo.png

SF-logo.png

223 ms

Scottish_Widows_logo.svg

Scottish_Widows_logo.svg

146 ms

legal-general-logo-png-transparent.png

legal-general-logo-png-transparent.png

222 ms

national-friendly-logo.png

national-friendly-logo.png

486 ms

lve.png

lve.png

149 ms

hsbclogo.png

hsbclogo.png

526 ms

aviva.png

aviva.png

449 ms

Beagle_Street_Logo.svg.png

Beagle_Street_Logo.svg.png

415 ms

cirencester-friendly-1.png

cirencester-friendly-1.png

352 ms

guardian.svg

guardian.svg

250 ms

logo-1.png

logo-1.png

665 ms

onefamily-logo-fallback-rgb-1.png

onefamily-logo-fallback-rgb-1.png

434 ms

Royal_London_Group_logo.svg

Royal_London_Group_logo.svg

415 ms

100-pc.svg

100-pc.svg

417 ms

rubiks.svg

rubiks.svg

440 ms

phone.svg

phone.svg

460 ms

noise.png

noise.png

471 ms

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3-1.jpg

462 ms

icon-dark.svg

icon-dark.svg

475 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

477 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

504 ms

5.jpg

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493 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

491 ms

stars.svg

stars.svg

498 ms

4stars.svg

4stars.svg

504 ms

yp-cs-3.jpg

yp-cs-3.jpg

509 ms

singh-family.jpg

singh-family.jpg

515 ms

pilot-cs.jpg

pilot-cs.jpg

509 ms

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kelly-sikkema-beg4vkagLzs-unsplash-2.jpg

500 ms

AdobeStock_453841170.jpg

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500 ms

office-scaled.jpg

office-scaled.jpg

402 ms

icon-light.svg

icon-light.svg

394 ms

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70 ms

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96 ms

8e5c8bf6892f3cef804f50be28915b2b.js

8e5c8bf6892f3cef804f50be28915b2b.js

491 ms

js

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89 ms

destination

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149 ms

bat.js

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149 ms

355032187.js

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16 ms

Accessibility Review

coverdirect.net accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

coverdirect.net 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.net SEO score

86

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

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.net 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.net 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.net

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