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directdial.com

IT Solutions for Business | DirectDial.com

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directdial.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directdial.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

directdial.com

170 ms

www.directdial.com

691 ms

jquery.min.js

79 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

158 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Directdial.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (691 ms) belongs to the original domain Directdial.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

911.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Directdial.com 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 881.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 94.9 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. 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 82.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 881.1 kB
  • After minification 830.8 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. Direct Dial images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 100.0 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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 100.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 131.8 kB

  • Original 152.2 kB
  • After minification 118.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Directdial.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (20%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Dial. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

directdial.com SEO score

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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 Directdial.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 Directdial.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 description is not detected on the main page of Direct Dial. 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: