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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

glowlightsdirect.com

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

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

739 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 1.6 sec and then it took 5.2 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

glowlightsdirect.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glowlightsdirect.com

1625 ms

js

280 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

305 ms

style.min.css

381 ms

css

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Glowlightsdirect.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Glowlightsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

878.8 kB

After Optimization

778.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glowlightsdirect.com main page is 878.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 590.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 74.8 kB
  • After minification 74.8 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 61.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 153.7 kB
  • After minification 153.7 kB
  • After compression 118.2 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 35.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (85%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

glowlightsdirect.com

glowlightsdirect.com

1625 ms

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280 ms

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305 ms

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381 ms

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230 ms

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298 ms

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165 ms

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380 ms

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426 ms

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551 ms

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306 ms

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388 ms

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999 ms

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1005 ms

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195 ms

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987 ms

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1255 ms

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1411 ms

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1428 ms

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238 ms

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39 ms

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14 ms

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237 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

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

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

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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: