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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

apex-steel.com

Apex Steel | Power to Build | Steel Products | Pipe Fittings

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

576 ms

Resources Loaded

8.9 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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About Website

Welcome to apex-steel.com homepage info - get ready to check Apex Steel best content for Kenya right away, or after learning these important things about apex-steel.com

Apex Steel is a steel manufacturing company based in Kenya. We provide quality and reliable steel products: deformed steel and pipe fittings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apex-steel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 576 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apex-steel.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value77.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apex-steel.com

576 ms

www.apex-steel.com

2061 ms

prettyPhoto.css

450 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

671 ms

css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Apex-steel.com, 14% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (11 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Apex-steel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 448.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

13.2 MB

After Optimization

12.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apex-steel.com main page is 13.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 12.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 123.8 kB

  • Original 153.0 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. 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 123.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 247.5 kB

  • Original 12.4 MB
  • After minification 12.2 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. Apex Steel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 464.9 kB
  • After minification 464.9 kB
  • After compression 400.1 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 64.8 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 200.4 kB
  • After minification 200.3 kB
  • After compression 188.4 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. Apex-steel.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (63%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Steel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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apex-steel.com

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Accessibility Review

apex-steel.com accessibility score

86

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apex-steel.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

apex-steel.com SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Apex-steel.com 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 Apex-steel.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

apex-steel.com

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