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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

messagedirect.co.uk

UK Call Answering Service For Small Businesses | Message Direct

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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About Website

Welcome to messagedirect.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Message Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about messagedirect.co.uk

Message Direct is the longest established and highest rated UK call answering service. Our reputation for quality has been forged over the past 27 years serving thousands of businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Messagedirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 2.1 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

messagedirect.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

messagedirect.co.uk

263 ms

www.message-direct.co.uk

608 ms

frontend.min.css

34 ms

post-4.css

19 ms

frontend.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Messagedirect.co.uk, 88% (14 requests) were made to Message-direct.co.uk and 6% (1 request) were made to Cdn-fcngb.nitrocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (608 ms) relates to the external source Message-direct.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 280.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

555.5 kB

After Optimization

274.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Messagedirect.co.uk main page is 555.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 337.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 279.7 kB

  • Original 337.2 kB
  • After minification 336.8 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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 279.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 107 B

  • Original 117.5 kB
  • After minification 117.4 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. Message Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 100.8 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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. Messagedirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (75%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Message 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

messagedirect.co.uk

messagedirect.co.uk

263 ms

www.message-direct.co.uk

www.message-direct.co.uk

608 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

34 ms

post-4.css

post-4.css

19 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

39 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

20 ms

post-9.css

post-9.css

30 ms

post-16.css

post-16.css

58 ms

post-536.css

post-536.css

59 ms

post-507.css

post-507.css

25 ms

post-3420.css

post-3420.css

27 ms

post-582.css

post-582.css

26 ms

finance4-section-bg2.png

finance4-section-bg2.png

53 ms

background-dust-left_hu72b36873e2c17e39d743e37b5451d1f2_1802_452x0_resize_lanczos_2.png

background-dust-left_hu72b36873e2c17e39d743e37b5451d1f2_1802_452x0_resize_lanczos_2.png

24 ms

e3dd529cc8475086f8b8e04e16a17042.elementskit.woff

e3dd529cc8475086f8b8e04e16a17042.elementskit.woff

262 ms

FontsFree-Net-springwood-brush-regular.ttf

FontsFree-Net-springwood-brush-regular.ttf

587 ms

Accessibility Review

messagedirect.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

messagedirect.co.uk 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

messagedirect.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Messagedirect.co.uk 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 Messagedirect.co.uk 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

messagedirect.co.uk

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