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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

rc-direct.com

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

389 ms

Resources Loaded

901 ms

Page Rendered

98 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rc-direct.com page load time and found that the first response time was 389 ms and then it took 999 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rc-direct.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rc-direct.com

389 ms

stylesheet.css

191 ms

home_button.gif

143 ms

button_separator.gif

143 ms

categories_button.gif

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rc-direct.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (436 ms) belongs to the original domain Rc-direct.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

125.1 kB

After Optimization

91.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rc-direct.com main page is 125.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 90.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.0 kB, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 26.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 87.0 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. Rc Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 655 B

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. Rc-direct.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (51%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rc Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rc-direct.com

rc-direct.com

389 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

191 ms

home_button.gif

home_button.gif

143 ms

button_separator.gif

button_separator.gif

143 ms

categories_button.gif

categories_button.gif

144 ms

contact_button.gif

contact_button.gif

143 ms

faqs_button.gif

faqs_button.gif

207 ms

downloads_button.gif

downloads_button.gif

207 ms

radio_repair.gif

radio_repair.gif

209 ms

orange_arrow.jpg

orange_arrow.jpg

208 ms

graphic2.gif

graphic2.gif

145 ms

mid_r1_c1.gif

mid_r1_c1.gif

145 ms

mid_r1_c3.gif

mid_r1_c3.gif

190 ms

mid_r1_c9.gif

mid_r1_c9.gif

191 ms

mid_r2_c1.gif

mid_r2_c1.gif

193 ms

Defaul1.jpg

Defaul1.jpg

320 ms

Defaul2.jpg

Defaul2.jpg

322 ms

mid_r4_c9.gif

mid_r4_c9.gif

131 ms

mid_r6_c1.gif

mid_r6_c1.gif

192 ms

mid_r6_c5.gif

mid_r6_c5.gif

193 ms

mid_r6_c9.gif

mid_r6_c9.gif

196 ms

left.h2.gif

left.h2.gif

196 ms

255 ms

fancounterright.gif

fancounterright.gif

257 ms

top_l.jpg

top_l.jpg

309 ms

top_c.jpg

top_c.jpg

246 ms

top_r.jpg

top_r.jpg

306 ms

menutop_c.jpg

menutop_c.jpg

308 ms

menutop_l.jpg

menutop_l.jpg

309 ms

menutop_r.jpg

menutop_r.jpg

310 ms

quicksearch_top.jpg

quicksearch_top.jpg

370 ms

quicksearch_body.jpg

quicksearch_body.jpg

372 ms

categories_top.jpg

categories_top.jpg

371 ms

categories_spacer.jpg

categories_spacer.jpg

372 ms

categories_bottom.jpg

categories_bottom.jpg

373 ms

top_sellers_top.jpg

top_sellers_top.jpg

374 ms

top_sellers_spacer.jpg

top_sellers_spacer.jpg

433 ms

top_sellers_bottom.jpg

top_sellers_bottom.jpg

436 ms

left_repeater.jpg

left_repeater.jpg

435 ms

bottomspacer.jpg

bottomspacer.jpg

434 ms

bottom_c.jpg

bottom_c.jpg

434 ms

bottom_l.jpg

bottom_l.jpg

436 ms

bottom_r.jpg

bottom_r.jpg

431 ms

Accessibility Review

rc-direct.com accessibility score

43

Accessibility Issues

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rc-direct.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rc-direct.com SEO score

67

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rc-direct.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 Rc-direct.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

rc-direct.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rc Direct. 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: