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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

directblinds.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to directblinds.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Direct Blinds best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about directblinds.co.uk

Order quality made to measure blinds online with Swift Direct Blinds. Amazing prices on Wooden Blinds, Roman Blinds, Roller Blinds plus more. Shop and save today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directblinds.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directblinds.co.uk performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directblinds.co.uk

79 ms

www.swiftdirectblinds.co.uk

298 ms

styles.css

38 ms

page-builder-m.css

54 ms

adyen.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 295 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Directblinds.co.uk, 87% (258 requests) were made to Swiftdirectblinds.co.uk and 3% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Swiftdirectblinds.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directblinds.co.uk main page is 3.5 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. 80% 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. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 257.5 kB

  • Original 316.1 kB
  • After minification 312.8 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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 257.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Direct Blinds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 180.7 kB
  • After minification 180.7 kB
  • After compression 148.9 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 31.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 241 B

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Directblinds.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 233 (82%)

Requests Now

284

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 284 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Blinds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 223 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

directblinds.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

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

directblinds.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

directblinds.co.uk 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

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

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 Directblinds.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 Directblinds.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

directblinds.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Direct Blinds. 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: