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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

specialdirect.com

SEN Teaching Resources & Special Educational Supplies | TTS

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

262 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

134 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Specialdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 262 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

specialdirect.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

specialdirect.com

262 ms

380 ms

otSDKStub.js

110 ms

plugins.css

63 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Specialdirect.com, 48% (34 requests) were made to Tts-group.co.uk and 13% (9 requests) were made to Cas.zma.gs. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) relates to the external source Tts-group.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 485.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

857.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Specialdirect.com main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 702.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 292.8 kB

  • Original 332.4 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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 292.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 179.3 kB
  • After minification 176.4 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. Special Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 189.5 kB

  • Original 702.2 kB
  • After minification 702.2 kB
  • After compression 512.7 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 189.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 85 B

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 128.3 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. Specialdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (80%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Special 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 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

specialdirect.com

specialdirect.com

262 ms

380 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

110 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

63 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

54 ms

css2

css2

79 ms

css

css

96 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

77 ms

css

css

99 ms

style.css

style.css

72 ms

style.css

style.css

68 ms

nob5rbm.css

nob5rbm.css

74 ms

jquery.lazyloadxt.min.js

jquery.lazyloadxt.min.js

59 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

65 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

74 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

83 ms

p13n.js

p13n.js

81 ms

init.js

init.js

154 ms

init.js

init.js

273 ms

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init.js

275 ms

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init.js

273 ms

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275 ms

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276 ms

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init.js

273 ms

init.js

init.js

337 ms

init.js

init.js

337 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

71 ms

es5-shim.min.js

es5-shim.min.js

65 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

260 ms

matchMedia.js

matchMedia.js

63 ms

matchMedia.addListener.js

matchMedia.addListener.js

60 ms

jquery.menu-aim.min.js

jquery.menu-aim.min.js

63 ms

app.js

app.js

74 ms

_dmpt.js

_dmpt.js

148 ms

shave.min.js

shave.min.js

70 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

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74 ms

dwac-21.7.js

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75 ms

gretel.min.js

gretel.min.js

51 ms

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65 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

61 ms

p.css

p.css

39 ms

location

location

109 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

147 ms

widget.js

widget.js

123 ms

arrow-right-red.svg

arrow-right-red.svg

79 ms

x.svg

x.svg

55 ms

burger-menu.png

burger-menu.png

54 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

75 ms

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75 ms

menu-logo-mobile.png

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55 ms

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74 ms

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81 ms

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FY24-PP1-NEW-Furniture-FULL-Mega-Menu.png

81 ms

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FY24-PP1-NEW-SEN-FULL-Mega-Menu.png

80 ms

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80 ms

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USP-Envelope-01.png

127 ms

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79 ms

usp-price-match.png

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126 ms

footer-logo.png

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127 ms

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126 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

75 ms

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73 ms

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98 ms

Small-breadcrumb.svg

Small-breadcrumb.svg

87 ms

widget.css

widget.css

32 ms

open_sans.css

open_sans.css

14 ms

footer-arrow.png

footer-arrow.png

44 ms

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28 ms

Accessibility Review

specialdirect.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

specialdirect.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

specialdirect.com SEO score

89

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 uses 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 Specialdirect.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 Specialdirect.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

specialdirect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Special 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: