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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

alard.com

Used Food Processing and Packaging Equipment - ALARD EQUIPMENT CORPORATION.

Page Load Speed

935 ms in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

581 ms

Page Rendered

276 ms

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About Website

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At Alard Equipment Company, we buy, sell, refurbish, recondition, and configure industrial food processing and packaging equipment and machinery, serving both domestic and international food processor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 857 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alard.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.alard.com

78 ms

js

60 ms

universal.js

79 ms

tracking.js

23 ms

logo.gif

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Alard.com, 16% (3 requests) were made to Static.mailerlite.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) relates to the external source Static.mailerlite.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alard.com main page is 2.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 3.3 kB, which is 12% 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 20.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 87.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. ALARD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 273 B

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 88 B

  • Original 376 B
  • After minification 376 B
  • After compression 288 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. Alard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88 B or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (29%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALARD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.alard.com

www.alard.com

78 ms

js

js

60 ms

universal.js

universal.js

79 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

23 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

34 ms

spinning_globe.gif

spinning_globe.gif

95 ms

equipment.gif

equipment.gif

96 ms

alard_home_page_composite.jpg

alard_home_page_composite.jpg

119 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

95 ms

general_listings_button.jpg

general_listings_button.jpg

66 ms

freshcutitems_button.gif

freshcutitems_button.gif

93 ms

alard_tv_button.png

alard_tv_button.png

96 ms

40 ms

45 ms

universal.css

universal.css

53 ms

30 ms

25 ms

18 ms

a4e9f5e1c3_popups.js

a4e9f5e1c3_popups.js

161 ms

Accessibility Review

alard.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

alard.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

alard.com SEO score

69

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 Alard.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 Alard.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

alard.com

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