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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

vinylsignsdirect.com

Vinyl Signs Direct Self Adhesive Signs and Self Adhesive Vinyl Lettering for DIY Signs

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

816 ms

Resources Loaded

999 ms

Page Rendered

86 ms

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About Website

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Vinyl Signs and Vinyl Lettering Direct is a simple and economical service providing you with easy ready to apply, personalised and customised computer cut vinyl letters and lettering, text and graphic...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vinylsignsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 816 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vinylsignsdirect.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vinylsignsdirect.com

816 ms

vinylsignsdirect.css

137 ms

menu.css

128 ms

tlc.jpg

123 ms

trc.jpg

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Vinylsignsdirect.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (816 ms) belongs to the original domain Vinylsignsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.8 kB (61%)

Content Size

66.8 kB

After Optimization

26.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vinylsignsdirect.com main page is 66.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 26.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 5.5 kB, which is 21% 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 21.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 1.5 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, Vinyl Signs Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 86% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 542 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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

-85%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Vinylsignsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (50%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vinyl Signs Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vinylsignsdirect.com

vinylsignsdirect.com

816 ms

vinylsignsdirect.css

vinylsignsdirect.css

137 ms

menu.css

menu.css

128 ms

tlc.jpg

tlc.jpg

123 ms

trc.jpg

trc.jpg

128 ms

blc.jpg

blc.jpg

127 ms

brc.jpg

brc.jpg

120 ms

cm

cm

2 ms

ShoppingOnLine.png

ShoppingOnLine.png

174 ms

cm

cm

3 ms

datescript.js

datescript.js

131 ms

gold.gif

gold.gif

84 ms

right-arrow.gif

right-arrow.gif

84 ms

ga.js

ga.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

vinylsignsdirect.com accessibility score

63

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

vinylsignsdirect.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

vinylsignsdirect.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vinylsignsdirect.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 Vinylsignsdirect.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

vinylsignsdirect.com

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