Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

theskindirectory.com

Website directory for skin care clinics, products, treatments

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

408 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

875 ms

theskindirectory.com screenshot

About Website

Visit theskindirectory.com now to see the best up-to-date The Skin Directory content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theskindirectory.com

A great resource to find skin-care related products and services, such as skin care clinics, creams and serums, treatments

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theskindirectory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 408 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theskindirectory.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.315

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theskindirectory.com

408 ms

www.theskindirectory.com

774 ms

general.js

246 ms

richtext.js

330 ms

jquery.min.js

493 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Theskindirectory.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) belongs to the original domain Theskindirectory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

883.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Theskindirectory.com 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 964.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 102.3 kB
  • After minification 88.8 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 13.5 kB, which is 13% 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 87.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 133.4 kB

  • Original 964.8 kB
  • After minification 831.5 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, The Skin Directory needs image optimization as it can save up to 133.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 134.2 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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 97.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 525 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. Theskindirectory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (10%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Skin Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theskindirectory.com accessibility score

77

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.

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

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

Best Practices

theskindirectory.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

SEO Factors

theskindirectory.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theskindirectory.com 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 Theskindirectory.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Skin Directory. 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: