Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

directorderblinds.co.uk

Direct Order Blinds | Buy Made to Measure Blinds in UK

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

directorderblinds.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Direct Order Blinds, the #1 UK Manufacturer and online retailer. Get a quality blinds at the best prices. Free samples and delivery on orders over £189!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directorderblinds.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directorderblinds.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value56.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,020 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.856

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directorderblinds.co.uk

98 ms

www.directorderblinds.co.uk

684 ms

38e17f75162ef0acdd45409ed964ed69.css

339 ms

ckeditor.js

372 ms

splide.min.js

354 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Directorderblinds.co.uk, 10% (12 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 7% (9 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Directorderblinds.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (17%)

Content Size

14.5 MB

After Optimization

12.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Directorderblinds.co.uk main page is 14.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 500.1 kB

  • Original 595.1 kB
  • After minification 514.4 kB
  • After compression 95.0 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 80.7 kB, which is 14% 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 500.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 13.6 MB
  • After minification 11.7 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. Obviously, Direct Order Blinds needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 273.4 kB
  • After minification 273.4 kB
  • After compression 249.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. Directorderblinds.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (48%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Order Blinds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

directorderblinds.co.uk accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

directorderblinds.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

directorderblinds.co.uk SEO score

82

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Directorderblinds.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 Directorderblinds.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

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