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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

arcoweldingsupply.com

Welding Supplies, Welding Equipment, Welding Accessories | ARCO Welding Supply Co.

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

311 ms

arcoweldingsupply.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing ARCO Welding Supply content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about arcoweldingsupply.com

ARCO Welding Supply Company has been the leading distributor of welding supplies, welding equipment and welding accessories from the top manufacturers in the industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcoweldingsupply.com page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcoweldingsupply.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcoweldingsupply.com

55 ms

arcoweldingsupply.com

102 ms

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

32 ms

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

136 ms

css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Arcoweldingsupply.com, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Industrialtraffic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Arcoweldingsupply.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

692.8 kB

After Optimization

632.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arcoweldingsupply.com main page is 692.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 506.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 15.0 kB, which is 46% 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 27.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 506.2 kB
  • After minification 500.2 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. ARCO Welding Supply images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 112.4 kB
  • After minification 112.1 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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 18.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 41.9 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Arcoweldingsupply.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARCO Welding Supply. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arcoweldingsupply.com

arcoweldingsupply.com

55 ms

arcoweldingsupply.com

arcoweldingsupply.com

102 ms

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

32 ms

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

www.arcoweldingsupply.com

136 ms

css

css

40 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

90 ms

grid.css

grid.css

121 ms

layout.css

layout.css

34 ms

animation.css

animation.css

122 ms

kyles-icons.css

kyles-icons.css

106 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

114 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

120 ms

jquery.modernizr.js

jquery.modernizr.js

328 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

119 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

1341 ms

twitterFetcher_min.js

twitterFetcher_min.js

1335 ms

jquery.smoothscroll.js

jquery.smoothscroll.js

2353 ms

jquery.resizegrid.js

jquery.resizegrid.js

2352 ms

imagesloaded.js

imagesloaded.js

2353 ms

config.js

config.js

2354 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1348 ms

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arco-logo.png

2076 ms

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2383 ms

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4244 ms

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4254 ms

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4800 ms

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gtm.js

143 ms

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home-bg.jpg

4319 ms

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welding-bg.png

4322 ms

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4323 ms

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supplier-bg.jpg

4542 ms

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4699 ms

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3917 ms

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60 ms

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1183 ms

Accessibility Review

arcoweldingsupply.com accessibility score

56

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

arcoweldingsupply.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

arcoweldingsupply.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Arcoweldingsupply.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 Arcoweldingsupply.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

arcoweldingsupply.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ARCO Welding Supply. 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: