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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

letteringdirect.com

Lettering Direct | Vinyl Lettering for Signs, Vehicles and Windows

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

405 ms

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About Website

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

At Lettering Direct, we offer an online vinyl lettering service which is both easy and economical. Design your own Custom Lettering with our designer tool.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Letteringdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 2.2 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

letteringdirect.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.145

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

letteringdirect.com

18 ms

letteringdirect.co.uk

515 ms

jquery.min.js

26 ms

header-4fab8a75.min.css

41 ms

modal.min.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Letteringdirect.com, 82% (31 requests) were made to Letteringdirect.co.uk and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (531 ms) relates to the external source Letteringdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Letteringdirect.com main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 903.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 103.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 903.9 kB
  • After minification 898.7 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. Lettering Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 154.2 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 152.9 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 208.4 kB
  • After minification 208.4 kB
  • After compression 206.6 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. Letteringdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (58%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lettering 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

letteringdirect.com

letteringdirect.com

18 ms

letteringdirect.co.uk

letteringdirect.co.uk

515 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

26 ms

header-4fab8a75.min.css

header-4fab8a75.min.css

41 ms

modal.min.css

modal.min.css

24 ms

header-3fe951b3.min.css

header-3fe951b3.min.css

37 ms

header-5eb97b26.min.css

header-5eb97b26.min.css

52 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

196 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

36 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

210 ms

header-83322bb7.min.js

header-83322bb7.min.js

225 ms

tooltip.min.js

tooltip.min.js

216 ms

header-667508fc.min.js

header-667508fc.min.js

220 ms

lsd-public.js

lsd-public.js

256 ms

header-db2627de.min.js

header-db2627de.min.js

379 ms

lsd-modal.min.js

lsd-modal.min.js

380 ms

header-32520f4d.min.js

header-32520f4d.min.js

381 ms

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

393 ms

css

css

48 ms

wdsstyle.css

wdsstyle.css

237 ms

css2

css2

89 ms

js

js

90 ms

footer-65c58af9.min.js

footer-65c58af9.min.js

531 ms

Payments-by-Sage-Pay-Horizontal-3.jpg

Payments-by-Sage-Pay-Horizontal-3.jpg

108 ms

lettering-direct-vinyl-stickers.svg

lettering-direct-vinyl-stickers.svg

62 ms

cropped-logo-lettering-direct1.png

cropped-logo-lettering-direct1.png

60 ms

lettering-designer.jpg

lettering-designer.jpg

475 ms

Screenshot_2019-01-25-custom-lettering-designer-1-gif-GIF-Image-200-%C3%97-200-pixels2.png

Screenshot_2019-01-25-custom-lettering-designer-1-gif-GIF-Image-200-%C3%97-200-pixels2.png

60 ms

Car-Bumper-Graphic-nurberg-e1509358492395.jpg

Car-Bumper-Graphic-nurberg-e1509358492395.jpg

62 ms

vinyl-wall-art-3.jpg

vinyl-wall-art-3.jpg

64 ms

laptop-stickers.jpg

laptop-stickers.jpg

63 ms

newstars.png

newstars.png

63 ms

font

font

43 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

338 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

331 ms

font

font

43 ms

payments.png

payments.png

29 ms

alphabets-1839737_1920.jpg

alphabets-1839737_1920.jpg

20 ms

Accessibility Review

letteringdirect.com accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

letteringdirect.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

letteringdirect.com SEO score

86

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

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 Letteringdirect.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 Letteringdirect.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 Lettering Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: