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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

underlay-direct.uk

Underlay Direct | UK’s best selection of underlay and flooring

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Underlay Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about underlay-direct.uk

Largest selection of underlay and flooring, Underlay direct have an extensive online range of underlay, vinyl and accessories. Shop now for amazing value.

Visit underlay-direct.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Underlay-direct.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 3.2 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

underlay-direct.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.835

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.underlay-direct.uk

757 ms

redshop.css

94 ms

style.css

174 ms

priceslider.css

231 ms

jquery-ui.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Underlay-direct.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (757 ms) belongs to the original domain Underlay-direct.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

907.1 kB

After Optimization

818.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Underlay-direct.uk main page is 907.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 574.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 43.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 574.5 kB
  • After minification 547.6 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. Underlay Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 252.4 kB
  • After minification 252.4 kB
  • After compression 239.5 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Underlay-direct.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (47%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Underlay 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 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.underlay-direct.uk

www.underlay-direct.uk

757 ms

redshop.css

redshop.css

94 ms

style.css

style.css

174 ms

priceslider.css

priceslider.css

231 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

26 ms

modal.css

modal.css

235 ms

css

css

35 ms

system.css

system.css

232 ms

position.css

position.css

234 ms

layout.css

layout.css

232 ms

general.css

general.css

249 ms

general_mozilla.css

general_mozilla.css

312 ms

personal.css

personal.css

309 ms

menu.min.css

menu.min.css

312 ms

menu.fix.css

menu.fix.css

312 ms

cart.css

cart.css

313 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

404 ms

core.js

core.js

386 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

538 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

467 ms

redBOX.js

redBOX.js

389 ms

attribute.js

attribute.js

468 ms

common.js

common.js

465 ms

modal.js

modal.js

466 ms

md_stylechanger.js

md_stylechanger.js

481 ms

hide.js

hide.js

543 ms

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

546 ms

search.js

search.js

544 ms

ext-core.js

ext-core.js

702 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

558 ms

css

css

42 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

32 ms

system.css

system.css

393 ms

pptm.js

pptm.js

77 ms

clouds-background-4.jpg

clouds-background-4.jpg

178 ms

logo_new.jpg

logo_new.jpg

178 ms

phone_new.jpg

phone_new.jpg

87 ms

cart_new.png

cart_new.png

87 ms

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carpet%20underlay%20direct23.07.16.jpg

87 ms

we_make_it_easy.jpg

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87 ms

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236 ms

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178 ms

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179 ms

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176 ms

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232 ms

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234 ms

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239 ms

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240 ms

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239 ms

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310 ms

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311 ms

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312 ms

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313 ms

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318 ms

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318 ms

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387 ms

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389 ms

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388 ms

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393 ms

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394 ms

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1685523472_sofa_bw_w225_h338_.jpg

394 ms

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1685523452_bed_bw_w225_h338_.jpg

464 ms

LHB_delivery20.16.jpg

LHB_delivery20.16.jpg

469 ms

LHB_pay.jpg

LHB_pay.jpg

468 ms

LHB_lowest.jpg

LHB_lowest.jpg

468 ms

other%20site.jpg

other%20site.jpg

469 ms

which_underlay_guide.jpg

which_underlay_guide.jpg

468 ms

btm.jpg

btm.jpg

545 ms

all.js

all.js

70 ms

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60 ms

muse.js

muse.js

56 ms

ts

ts

109 ms

all.js

all.js

27 ms

56 ms

index.html

index.html

19 ms

ts

ts

97 ms

print.css

print.css

80 ms

Accessibility Review

underlay-direct.uk accessibility score

82

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

underlay-direct.uk best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

underlay-direct.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Underlay-direct.uk 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 Underlay-direct.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

underlay-direct.uk

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