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directions.com.au

Brisbane IT Support Company | Managed IT Services Brisbane | Cloud Computing Provider | Cloud Hosting Services | Directions IT

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

626 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to directions.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Directions best content right away, or after learning these important things about directions.com.au

Brisbane based company, providing Managed IT Services, Cloud Computing Services and IT Project Delivery to clients in SE Queensland and across Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directions.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 626 ms and then it took 4.2 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

directions.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

directions.com.au

626 ms

www.directionstech.com.au

57 ms

bootstrap.min.css

82 ms

all.min.css

90 ms

v4-shims.min.css

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Directions.com.au, 41% (74 requests) were made to Pronto-core-cdn.prontomarketing.com and 28% (50 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (702 ms) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Directions.com.au main page is 1.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 95.1 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 75.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Directions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 431.6 kB
  • After minification 421.1 kB
  • After compression 352.6 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 79.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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. Directions.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (44%)

Requests Now

162

After Optimization

91

The browser has sent 162 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

directions.com.au 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 Directions.com.au 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 Directions.com.au 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 Directions. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: