Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

directdrivelogistics.com

Nationwide Freight Broker & Logistics Consulting Company | Direct Drive Logistics Worldwide Freight Brokerage

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Nationwide freight broker company Direct Drive Logistics provides solutions for less than truckload (LTL) and full truckload (FTL) freight shipping.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directdrivelogistics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.7 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

directdrivelogistics.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directdrivelogistics.com

61 ms

www.directdrivelogistics.com

186 ms

CSS_Head

93 ms

DDL-main.css

323 ms

home-styles.css

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Directdrivelogistics.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (607 ms) belongs to the original domain Directdrivelogistics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Directdrivelogistics.com main page is 4.5 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 116.2 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 88.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 4.3 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 Drive Logistics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 4.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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. Directdrivelogistics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (17%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Drive Logistics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

directdrivelogistics.com accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

directdrivelogistics.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

directdrivelogistics.com SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Directdrivelogistics.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Directdrivelogistics.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 Drive Logistics. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: