Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

harbourmetals.com

Harbour Metals Recycling Thunder Bay, ON - Recycling the Past to Protect the Future

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

904 ms

Page Rendered

203 ms

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About Website

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Turn Your Scrap Into Cash At Harbour Metals, we work with industrial and individual customers who want to turn their scrap metal into cash. Whether you are selling tonnes of scrap material or a few po...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harbourmetals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 133 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

harbourmetals.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harbourmetals.com

133 ms

www.harbourmetals.com

460 ms

stylesheets.asp

50 ms

functions_js.asp

234 ms

sencia_harbourmetals.gif

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Harbourmetals.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Sencia.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Harbourmetals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

420.5 kB

After Optimization

377.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Harbourmetals.com main page is 420.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 288.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 8.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 288.4 kB
  • After minification 281.6 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. Harbour Metals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 118.3 kB
  • After compression 91.3 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 27.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Harbourmetals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harbour Metals. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

harbourmetals.com accessibility score

88

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

Best Practices

harbourmetals.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

harbourmetals.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Harbourmetals.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 Harbourmetals.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 Harbour Metals. 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: