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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

metalforms.com

Concrete Forms | Concrete Screed | Paving Forms | Concrete Finishing | Concrete Material Handling Products | Metal Forms Concrete Construction Forms

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

457 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalforms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metalforms.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalforms.com

100 ms

www.metalforms.com

355 ms

main.css

93 ms

main-ecomm.css

114 ms

home.css

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Metalforms.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (372 ms) belongs to the original domain Metalforms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalforms.com main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 55.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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. Metal Forms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 78.7 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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 13.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 35.9 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Metalforms.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (15%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Forms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalforms.com

metalforms.com

100 ms

www.metalforms.com

www.metalforms.com

355 ms

main.css

main.css

93 ms

main-ecomm.css

main-ecomm.css

114 ms

home.css

home.css

131 ms

slick.css

slick.css

138 ms

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

141 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

150 ms

js

js

49 ms

JS_EOB

JS_EOB

118 ms

JS_EOB_GenCart

JS_EOB_GenCart

136 ms

phoneswap_debug.js

phoneswap_debug.js

223 ms

MetalFormsLogo.png

MetalFormsLogo.png

157 ms

menu-background.jpg

menu-background.jpg

226 ms

paving.jpg

paving.jpg

155 ms

metaforms.png

metaforms.png

154 ms

baseline.jpg

baseline.jpg

156 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

154 ms

metapave.jpg

metapave.jpg

221 ms

metapave2.jpg

metapave2.jpg

222 ms

barrier.jpg

barrier.jpg

222 ms

barrierform.jpg

barrierform.jpg

223 ms

parapet.jpg

parapet.jpg

223 ms

transition.jpg

transition.jpg

225 ms

precast.jpg

precast.jpg

226 ms

flatwork.jpg

flatwork.jpg

226 ms

slimline.jpg

slimline.jpg

227 ms

flex.jpg

flex.jpg

228 ms

Curb-Setup.jpg

Curb-Setup.jpg

228 ms

poly-sub-header.jpg

poly-sub-header.jpg

229 ms

PolyMetal.png

PolyMetal.png

228 ms

mega-1.jpg

mega-1.jpg

230 ms

mega-2.jpg

mega-2.jpg

230 ms

mega-3.jpg

mega-3.jpg

231 ms

vibratory.jpg

vibratory.jpg

232 ms

SpeedScreed.png

SpeedScreed.png

232 ms

heavyduty.jpg

heavyduty.jpg

232 ms

newcruiser.jpg

newcruiser.jpg

233 ms

rollerscreed.jpg

rollerscreed.jpg

233 ms

SpeedScreedLogo.png

SpeedScreedLogo.png

235 ms

roller.jpg

roller.jpg

234 ms

paving.jpg

paving.jpg

344 ms

slider-background.jpg

slider-background.jpg

235 ms

metapave.png

metapave.png

235 ms

metapave2.png

metapave2.png

236 ms

baseline.png

baseline.png

235 ms

LibreFranklin-Regular.woff

LibreFranklin-Regular.woff

267 ms

LibreFranklin-Medium.woff

LibreFranklin-Medium.woff

191 ms

LibreFranklin-Light.woff

LibreFranklin-Light.woff

191 ms

LibreFranklin-Thin.woff

LibreFranklin-Thin.woff

190 ms

LibreFranklin-SemiBold.woff

LibreFranklin-SemiBold.woff

189 ms

LibreFranklin-ExtraBold.woff

LibreFranklin-ExtraBold.woff

188 ms

js

js

126 ms

LibreFranklin-Bold.woff

LibreFranklin-Bold.woff

201 ms

LibreFranklin-Black.woff

LibreFranklin-Black.woff

201 ms

RobotoCondensed-Regular.woff

RobotoCondensed-Regular.woff

200 ms

RobotoCondensed-Bold.woff

RobotoCondensed-Bold.woff

200 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

197 ms

Barrier1.jpg

Barrier1.jpg

252 ms

Barrier.png

Barrier.png

250 ms

Transition.png

Transition.png

250 ms

Precast.png

Precast.png

251 ms

Parapet.png

Parapet.png

250 ms

Flatwork2.jpg

Flatwork2.jpg

269 ms

FlexibleRadius.png

FlexibleRadius.png

265 ms

Slimline.png

Slimline.png

265 ms

poly.jpg

poly.jpg

353 ms

PolyStraight.png

PolyStraight.png

264 ms

PolyFlex.png

PolyFlex.png

291 ms

Hardware.png

Hardware.png

288 ms

vibratory2.jpg

vibratory2.jpg

322 ms

Cruiser.png

Cruiser.png

307 ms

HeavyDuty.png

HeavyDuty.png

308 ms

rollerscreed.jpg

rollerscreed.jpg

372 ms

roller.png

roller.png

340 ms

homepage-body.png

homepage-body.png

367 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

76 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

Accessibility Review

metalforms.com accessibility score

81

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metalforms.com best practices score

75

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

metalforms.com SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Metalforms.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 Metalforms.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

metalforms.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Metal Forms. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: