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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

directionsmag.com

Directions Magazine - GIS News and Geospatial

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

361 ms

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About Website

Visit directionsmag.com now to see the best up-to-date Directions Mag content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about directionsmag.com

Directions magazine is the number one GIS industry resource for news, articles, webinars. We provide our readers with inspiration, engagement and the best information in order to make timely and profe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directionsmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directionsmag.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directionsmag.com

160 ms

www.directionsmag.com

2166 ms

css

23 ms

css

33 ms

bootstrap-paper.css

410 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Directionsmag.com, 56% (35 requests) were made to Media.directionsmedia.net and 21% (13 requests) were made to Ads.directionsmag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Directionsmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 529.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

859.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directionsmag.com main page is 1.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 731.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 21% 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 45.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 731.7 kB
  • After minification 693.5 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. Directions Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 267.5 kB

  • Original 394.0 kB
  • After minification 393.7 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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 267.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 179.2 kB

  • Original 210.3 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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. Directionsmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 179.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (32%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directions Mag. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directionsmag.com

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160 ms

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Accessibility Review

directionsmag.com accessibility score

63

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

directionsmag.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

directionsmag.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Directionsmag.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 Directionsmag.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

directionsmag.com

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