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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

glowlightsdirect.com

The UK's Leading Supplier of Lights Up Novelties - Event Lights Ltd

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

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About Website

Visit glowlightsdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Glow Lights Direct content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about glowlightsdirect.com

Welcome to Glow Lights Direct, a trading name of Event Lights Ltd - the UK's number-1 supplier of light up novelties and toys. For bulk orders, get in contact with Event Lights on the contact pag...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glowlightsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 2.3 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

glowlightsdirect.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glowlightsdirect.com

19 ms

glowlightsdirect.com

835 ms

js

68 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Glowlightsdirect.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (943 ms) belongs to the original domain Glowlightsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

913.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glowlightsdirect.com main page is 1.1 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 590.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 71.3 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. 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 71.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 590.1 kB
  • After minification 590.1 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. Glow Lights Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 39.3 kB

  • Original 209.5 kB
  • After minification 209.5 kB
  • After compression 170.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 39.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 170.9 kB
  • After compression 136.7 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. Glowlightsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (89%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glow Lights 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

glowlightsdirect.com

glowlightsdirect.com

19 ms

glowlightsdirect.com

glowlightsdirect.com

835 ms

js

js

68 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

18 ms

css

css

49 ms

menu-animation.min.css

menu-animation.min.css

25 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

25 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

29 ms

wc-all-blocks-style.css

wc-all-blocks-style.css

32 ms

main.css

main.css

40 ms

woocommerce-layout.min.css

woocommerce-layout.min.css

29 ms

woocommerce.min.css

woocommerce.min.css

41 ms

header-footer-elementor.css

header-footer-elementor.css

43 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

43 ms

frontend-legacy.min.css

frontend-legacy.min.css

36 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

46 ms

post-852.css

post-852.css

44 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

51 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

54 ms

post-985.css

post-985.css

44 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

59 ms

woo-products-widgets.css

woo-products-widgets.css

55 ms

free-shipping.css

free-shipping.css

56 ms

no-right-click-images-frontend.css

no-right-click-images-frontend.css

62 ms

style.css

style.css

64 ms

css

css

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

62 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

62 ms

product-tiered-pricing-table.min.js

product-tiered-pricing-table.min.js

63 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

105 ms

js

js

102 ms

wpstg-blank-loader.js

wpstg-blank-loader.js

102 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

99 ms

animations.min.css

animations.min.css

99 ms

style.min.js

style.min.js

100 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

100 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

102 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

115 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

116 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

101 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

119 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

119 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

110 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

108 ms

wc-blocks-google-analytics.js

wc-blocks-google-analytics.js

105 ms

child.js

child.js

943 ms

actions.js

actions.js

102 ms

no-right-click-images-frontend.js

no-right-click-images-frontend.js

95 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

93 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

90 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

90 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

89 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

114 ms

share-link.min.js

share-link.min.js

111 ms

dialog.min.js

dialog.min.js

106 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

104 ms

woo-products-widgets.js

woo-products-widgets.js

100 ms

preloaded-modules.min.js

preloaded-modules.min.js

102 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

99 ms

wp-util.min.js

wp-util.min.js

98 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

95 ms

background.png

background.png

41 ms

Event-Lights-Logo.png

Event-Lights-Logo.png

40 ms

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fork-lift-copy-300x259.png

40 ms

GLD-logo-768x257.png

GLD-logo-768x257.png

41 ms

products-300x198.png

products-300x198.png

42 ms

font

font

232 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.min.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.min.css

12 ms

Accessibility Review

glowlightsdirect.com accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

glowlightsdirect.com 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

glowlightsdirect.com SEO score

100

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

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 Glowlightsdirect.com 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 Glowlightsdirect.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

glowlightsdirect.com

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