Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

shedsdirect.com

Factory Direct Storage Shed Sales

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

697 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

997 ms

shedsdirect.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to shedsdirect.com homepage info - get ready to check Shed S Direct best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about shedsdirect.com

ShedsDirect.com has offered factory direct deals on storage sheds since 2006. Buy a shed today from the industry leader at a direct discount plus Free Shipping!

Visit shedsdirect.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Shedsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 697 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shedsdirect.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shedsdirect.com

697 ms

webfont.js

23 ms

theme-a7fcc53026.css

197 ms

css

52 ms

js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Shedsdirect.com, 5% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.userway.org and 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Shedsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 519.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Shedsdirect.com main page is 2.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 460.2 kB

  • Original 500.7 kB
  • After minification 370.7 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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 130.0 kB, which is 26% 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 460.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Shed S Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 314.2 kB
  • After minification 314.2 kB
  • After compression 308.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 536 B

  • Original 107.5 kB
  • After minification 107.5 kB
  • After compression 107.0 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. Shedsdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (10%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

104

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shed S 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shedsdirect.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

shedsdirect.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shedsdirect.com SEO score

83

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Shedsdirect.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 Shedsdirect.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

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