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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

directheatingmerchants.co.uk

Heating Plumbing Merchants | Benfleet, Chelmsford & Southend

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

881 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

directheatingmerchants.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to directheatingmerchants.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Direct Heating Merchants best content right away, or after learning these important things about directheatingmerchants.co.uk

Direct Heating Plumbing Merchants has over 9000 quality parts in stock - Our very experienced staff can help you choose the right parts for your project.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directheatingmerchants.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 881 ms and then it took 3.8 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

directheatingmerchants.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.058

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.directheatingmerchants.co.uk

881 ms

layerslider.css

177 ms

css

28 ms

style.min.css

199 ms

styles.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Directheatingmerchants.co.uk, 17% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Directheatingmerchants.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directheatingmerchants.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 79.2 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 74.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 91.3 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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 Heating Merchants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 203.3 kB
  • After minification 203.0 kB
  • After compression 196.2 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 117.3 kB
  • After minification 115.3 kB
  • After compression 111.8 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. Directheatingmerchants.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (69%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Heating Merchants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.directheatingmerchants.co.uk

www.directheatingmerchants.co.uk

881 ms

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layerslider.css

177 ms

css

css

28 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

199 ms

styles.css

styles.css

28 ms

icons.css

icons.css

190 ms

reset.css

reset.css

34 ms

grid.css

grid.css

195 ms

style.css

style.css

48 ms

header.css

header.css

65 ms

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widgets.css

254 ms

portfolio.css

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239 ms

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189 ms

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549 ms

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585 ms

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593 ms

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670 ms

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jquery.sticky.js

591 ms

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functions.js

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589 ms

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591 ms

vc_elements_init.js

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623 ms

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js_composer_front.min.js

479 ms

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vc-waypoints.min.js

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layerslider.utils.js

493 ms

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325 ms

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882 ms

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Accessibility Review

directheatingmerchants.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

directheatingmerchants.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

directheatingmerchants.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Directheatingmerchants.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 Directheatingmerchants.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

directheatingmerchants.co.uk

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