Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

spongesdirect.com

Your Direct Source For Natural Sponges - Sponges Direct Inc

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

582 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

133 ms

spongesdirect.com screenshot

About Website

Visit spongesdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Sponges Direct content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about spongesdirect.com

Sponges Direct company is a global leader in the wholesale and retail sponge industry. We offer a complete line of all the finest sponges all over the world

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spongesdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 582 ms and then it took 2.3 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

spongesdirect.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spongesdirect.com

582 ms

f75d0e86b0df15fed14884a6af1c6c3d.min.css

106 ms

styles-l.min.css

123 ms

font-awesome.min.css

29 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 220 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (196 requests) were addressed to the original Spongesdirect.com, 4% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (582 ms) belongs to the original domain Spongesdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

937.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Spongesdirect.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 477.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 89.1 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 82.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 107 B

  • Original 477.4 kB
  • After minification 477.3 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. Sponges Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 407.0 kB
  • After minification 406.2 kB
  • After compression 369.8 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 368.6 kB

  • Original 448.6 kB
  • After minification 448.2 kB
  • After compression 80.0 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. Spongesdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 368.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 189 (90%)

Requests Now

209

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 209 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sponges 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 183 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spongesdirect.com accessibility score

90

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.

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

spongesdirect.com best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

spongesdirect.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Spongesdirect.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 Spongesdirect.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 description is not detected on the main page of Sponges 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: