Tools & Wizards About Us
directgolf.co.uk screenshot

Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

directgolf.co.uk

Golf - Golf Clubs, Clothing & Accessories | Lovell Sports

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

943 ms

directgolf.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Direct Golf content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about directgolf.co.uk

Browse our fantastic range of Golf Shoes, Clubs, Bags & More. Free Shipping Over £75. Next Day Delivery. Safe & Secure Shopping.

Visit directgolf.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Directgolf.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directgolf.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directgolf.co.uk

203 ms

directgolf.co.uk

336 ms

golf

926 ms

lovell-styles.min.css

485 ms

lovell-scripts.min.js

646 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Directgolf.co.uk, 42% (18 requests) were made to Cdn.lovellsports.com and 30% (13 requests) were made to Lovellsports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.lovellsports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directgolf.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 5.7 kB, which is 17% 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 26.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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 Golf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 157.4 kB
  • After minification 157.4 kB
  • After compression 157.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 384 B

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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. Directgolf.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (41%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Golf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directgolf.co.uk

directgolf.co.uk

203 ms

directgolf.co.uk

directgolf.co.uk

336 ms

golf

golf

926 ms

lovell-styles.min.css

lovell-styles.min.css

485 ms

lovell-scripts.min.js

lovell-scripts.min.js

646 ms

js

js

77 ms

localstrings.js

localstrings.js

472 ms

LSP-en-GB-megaMenuArrays-new.js

LSP-en-GB-megaMenuArrays-new.js

426 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

424 ms

cookieconsent.css

cookieconsent.css

62 ms

9899.js

9899.js

54 ms

ionicons.esm.js

ionicons.esm.js

50 ms

ionicons.js

ionicons.js

66 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

76 ms

account-icon.svg

account-icon.svg

406 ms

WinterMobile.jpg

WinterMobile.jpg

149 ms

uk.png

uk.png

89 ms

hamburger.svg

hamburger.svg

496 ms

logoSports.svg

logoSports.svg

601 ms

back-arrow.svg

back-arrow.svg

665 ms

lovell-golf-logo.png

lovell-golf-logo.png

850 ms

golf-shoes.jpg

golf-shoes.jpg

1159 ms

golf-clothing.jpg

golf-clothing.jpg

1192 ms

clubs.jpg

clubs.jpg

891 ms

balls.jpg

balls.jpg

879 ms

bags.jpg

bags.jpg

1136 ms

gloves.jpg

gloves.jpg

1130 ms

accessories.jpg

accessories.jpg

1091 ms

sale.jpg

sale.jpg

998 ms

payment-visa-dark.jpg

payment-visa-dark.jpg

1089 ms

payment-mastercard-dark.jpg

payment-mastercard-dark.jpg

1181 ms

payment-maestro-dark.jpg

payment-maestro-dark.jpg

1180 ms

payment-paypal-dark.jpg

payment-paypal-dark.jpg

1217 ms

payment-amex-dark.jpg

payment-amex-dark.jpg

1222 ms

eu.png

eu.png

87 ms

au.png

au.png

86 ms

nz.png

nz.png

87 ms

ar.png

ar.png

86 ms

us.png

us.png

127 ms

jp.png

jp.png

170 ms

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

41 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6V1s.ttf

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6V1s.ttf

51 ms

PAJJhLM6sSoWKfWCAAwDAjgbRAAB42mNgYGBkAIIbCZo5IPrmUn0hGA0AO8EFTQAA

PAJJhLM6sSoWKfWCAAwDAjgbRAAB42mNgYGBkAIIbCZo5IPrmUn0hGA0AO8EFTQAA

0 ms

Accessibility Review

directgolf.co.uk accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

directgolf.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

directgolf.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

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 Directgolf.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 Directgolf.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

directgolf.co.uk

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