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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

dancestationdirect.co.uk

Dance Station - Dancewear, Dance Shoes, Gymnastics, Highland Shoes

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

860 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

991 ms

dancestationdirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Dance Station Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dancestationdirect.co.uk

At Dance Station we sell popular Dancewear and Gymnastics brands. Bloch, Mirella, Pineapple Dancewear, Thistle Highland Shoes, Tappers and Pointers, Roch Valley, Dance Underwear.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dancestationdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 860 ms and then it took 3 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

dancestationdirect.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dancestationdirect.co.uk

860 ms

splide.min.css

43 ms

base.css

52 ms

buttons.css

55 ms

style.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Dancestationdirect.co.uk, 26% (19 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 23% (17 requests) were made to 14.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (860 ms) belongs to the original domain Dancestationdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dancestationdirect.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 886.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 260.8 kB

  • Original 289.7 kB
  • After minification 246.8 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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 43.0 kB, which is 15% 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 260.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 886.1 kB
  • After minification 882.6 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. Dance Station Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 95.6 kB
  • After minification 95.6 kB
  • After compression 94.3 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 3.3 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. Dancestationdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (50%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dance Station 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dancestationdirect.co.uk

dancestationdirect.co.uk

860 ms

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splide.min.css

43 ms

base.css

base.css

52 ms

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buttons.css

55 ms

style.css

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62 ms

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66 ms

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67 ms

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58 ms

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109 ms

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74 ms

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77 ms

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44 ms

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49 ms

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62 ms

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50 ms

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51 ms

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49 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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60 ms

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37 ms

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53 ms

newsletterpopup.js

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52 ms

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112 ms

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806 ms

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20 ms

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37 ms

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50 ms

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235 ms

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21 ms

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108 ms

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77 ms

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120 ms

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74 ms

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105 ms

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75 ms

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147 ms

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146 ms

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149 ms

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147 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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74 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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101 ms

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188 ms

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125 ms

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25 ms

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48 ms

Accessibility Review

dancestationdirect.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dancestationdirect.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dancestationdirect.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Dancestationdirect.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 Dancestationdirect.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

dancestationdirect.co.uk

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