Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

directchannel.uk.com

Direct Channel Support Systems | Cable Containment | HVAC Industry Supplies

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

directchannel.uk.com screenshot

About Website

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Direct Channel Support System is UK’s leading supplier of Strut Channel, Cable Containment including- Cable Tray, Cable Basket Tray, Cable Trunking & Cable Ladder Rack extensively used in the construc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directchannel.uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 13 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directchannel.uk.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.995

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directchannel.uk.com

172 ms

directchannel.uk.com

2244 ms

bootstrap.min.css

324 ms

magnific-popup.css

246 ms

jquery.selectBox.css

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original Directchannel.uk.com, 7% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Directchannel.uk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (29%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Directchannel.uk.com main page is 6.5 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. 75% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 219.4 kB

  • Original 251.3 kB
  • After minification 212.6 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 38.7 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 219.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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 Channel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 727.6 kB

  • Original 984.6 kB
  • After minification 906.1 kB
  • After compression 257.0 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 727.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 887.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 896.7 kB
  • After compression 140.1 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. Directchannel.uk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 887.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (58%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

directchannel.uk.com accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

directchannel.uk.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

directchannel.uk.com SEO score

67

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 Directchannel.uk.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 Directchannel.uk.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

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