Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

franchisedirect.com

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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franchisedirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franchisedirect.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franchisedirect.com

36 ms

www.franchisedirect.com

54 ms

header-new.css

10 ms

font-awesome.min.css

71 ms

thickbox.css

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 245 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Franchisedirect.com, 73% (180 requests) were made to C1590022.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com and 5% (13 requests) were made to 3442f2c7a7b40abc2fc5-6d3cda0276c60ac1534ec49761ff6aa7.r91.cf1.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (761 ms) relates to the external source C1590022.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 986.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Franchisedirect.com main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 227.4 kB

  • Original 275.5 kB
  • After minification 272.5 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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 227.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Franchise Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 244.0 kB

  • Original 377.0 kB
  • After minification 372.5 kB
  • After compression 133.0 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 244.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 399.9 kB

  • Original 471.9 kB
  • After minification 364.7 kB
  • After compression 72.0 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. Franchisedirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 399.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (14%)

Requests Now

238

After Optimization

205

The browser has sent 238 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franchise Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franchisedirect.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

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

franchisedirect.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

franchisedirect.com SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Franchisedirect.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 Franchisedirect.com 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 Franchise Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: