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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

teachers-direct.co.uk

teachers-direct recruitment - for UK Supply Teaching Jobs

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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About Website

Welcome to teachers-direct.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Teachers Direct best content for Russia right away, or after learning these important things about teachers-direct.co.uk

teachers-direct is a supply teaching agency providing daily and long term supply primary teachers and secondary teachers to fill jobs in schools around the UK, and teaching jobs overseas to non-UK tea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Teachers-direct.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

teachers-direct.co.uk performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teachers-direct.co.uk

181 ms

site.css

188 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.js

451 ms

jquery-1.8.2.js

699 ms

Logo%20_1_%20-%20JPG.jpg

345 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Teachers-direct.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (699 ms) belongs to the original domain Teachers-direct.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.5 kB (70%)

Content Size

416.3 kB

After Optimization

124.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Teachers-direct.co.uk main page is 416.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 437 B

  • Original 995 B
  • After minification 951 B
  • After compression 558 B

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 437 B or 44% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 95.1 kB
  • After minification 77.1 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, Teachers Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 272.3 kB

  • Original 319.1 kB
  • After minification 161.0 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 272.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 712 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 589 B
  • After compression 312 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. Teachers-direct.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 712 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Teachers Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

teachers-direct.co.uk

teachers-direct.co.uk

181 ms

site.css

site.css

188 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.js

modernizr-2.6.2.js

451 ms

jquery-1.8.2.js

jquery-1.8.2.js

699 ms

Logo%20_1_%20-%20JPG.jpg

Logo%20_1_%20-%20JPG.jpg

345 ms

Accessibility Review

teachers-direct.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

teachers-direct.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

teachers-direct.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Teachers-direct.co.uk 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 Teachers-direct.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

teachers-direct.co.uk

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