Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

spectaclesdirect.co.uk

Spectacles Direct | Home

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

spectaclesdirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit spectaclesdirect.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Spectacles Direct content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about spectaclesdirect.co.uk

Spectacles Direct is an outlet that offers a huge range of glasses on-line, from designer brands to budget frames. Standard prescription lenses and delivery are both free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spectaclesdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spectaclesdirect.co.uk performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.spectaclesdirect.co.uk

2589 ms

fcc08438ae2ed9763f351093181ef86b.css

488 ms

prototype.js

505 ms

ccard.js

183 ms

validation.js

276 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Spectaclesdirect.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Static.getclicky.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Spectaclesdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 609.1 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

578.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Spectaclesdirect.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 502.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 8.1 kB, which is 15% 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 45.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 502.7 kB
  • After minification 422.5 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. Obviously, Spectacles Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 370.3 kB

  • Original 501.0 kB
  • After minification 401.6 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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 370.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 113.3 kB

  • Original 131.8 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Spectaclesdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (39%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spectacles 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 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spectaclesdirect.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

spectaclesdirect.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

spectaclesdirect.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Spectaclesdirect.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Spectaclesdirect.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

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