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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

hardwaredirectuk.com

Door - Window - Hardware Emergency - Locks - Home-Improvements

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

316 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardwaredirectuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hardwaredirectuk.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardwaredirectuk.com

293 ms

actinic.css

158 ms

actiniccore.js

154 ms

actinicextras.js

155 ms

recentproductssupport.js

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Hardwaredirectuk.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (463 ms) belongs to the original domain Hardwaredirectuk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

303.2 kB

After Optimization

210.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardwaredirectuk.com main page is 303.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 137.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 45.7 kB
  • After minification 45.7 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. 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 37.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 441 B

  • Original 137.0 kB
  • After minification 136.6 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. Hardware Directuk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 47.3 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Hardwaredirectuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (63%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hardware Directuk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardwaredirectuk.com

hardwaredirectuk.com

293 ms

actinic.css

actinic.css

158 ms

actiniccore.js

actiniccore.js

154 ms

actinicextras.js

actinicextras.js

155 ms

recentproductssupport.js

recentproductssupport.js

156 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

154 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

163 ms

Act_section_tree.js

Act_section_tree.js

357 ms

logo-new.jpg

logo-new.jpg

382 ms

button_search_button.gif

button_search_button.gif

234 ms

theme_tab2_left.gif

theme_tab2_left.gif

233 ms

theme_tab2_right.gif

theme_tab2_right.gif

235 ms

theme_tab1_left.gif

theme_tab1_left.gif

238 ms

theme_tab1_right.gif

theme_tab1_right.gif

309 ms

product-range.jpg

product-range.jpg

385 ms

here-to-help.jpg

here-to-help.jpg

314 ms

open-closing-times.jpg

open-closing-times.jpg

318 ms

31-STB76VHOCOMPLETE-sm.jpg

31-STB76VHOCOMPLETE-sm.jpg

385 ms

08-1055SSS.jpg

08-1055SSS.jpg

396 ms

33-1011pb.jpg

33-1011pb.jpg

398 ms

33-1036ss.jpg

33-1036ss.jpg

433 ms

31-BTS75VHO-sm.jpg

31-BTS75VHO-sm.jpg

457 ms

08-0503AB.W-sm.jpg

08-0503AB.W-sm.jpg

461 ms

30-1061sc.jpg

30-1061sc.jpg

463 ms

theme.css

theme.css

322 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

118 ms

theme_topbar_background.gif

theme_topbar_background.gif

81 ms

theme_secondbar_background.gif

theme_secondbar_background.gif

78 ms

theme_sidebar_background.gif

theme_sidebar_background.gif

79 ms

theme_curve4.gif

theme_curve4.gif

78 ms

theme_curve2.gif

theme_curve2.gif

81 ms

theme_curve1.gif

theme_curve1.gif

78 ms

theme_curve3.gif

theme_curve3.gif

131 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

button_back_highlight.gif

button_back_highlight.gif

83 ms

button_checkout_highlight.gif

button_checkout_highlight.gif

81 ms

button_contact_highlight.gif

button_contact_highlight.gif

79 ms

button_entershop_highlight.gif

button_entershop_highlight.gif

81 ms

button_home_highlight.gif

button_home_highlight.gif

82 ms

button_login_highlight.gif

button_login_highlight.gif

79 ms

button_search_highlight.gif

button_search_highlight.gif

157 ms

button_sitemap_highlight.gif

button_sitemap_highlight.gif

158 ms

button_storetop_highlight.gif

button_storetop_highlight.gif

159 ms

button_terms_highlight.gif

button_terms_highlight.gif

159 ms

button_up_highlight.gif

button_up_highlight.gif

160 ms

button_viewcart_highlight.gif

button_viewcart_highlight.gif

161 ms

Accessibility Review

hardwaredirectuk.com accessibility score

62

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

hardwaredirectuk.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hardwaredirectuk.com SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hardwaredirectuk.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 Hardwaredirectuk.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

hardwaredirectuk.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hardware Directuk. 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: