Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

arcmaster.uk.com

Arcmaster Welding and Safety Supplies | Hull, East Yorkshire

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

322 ms

About Website

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At Arcmaster Hull you'll find welding machines and equipment, PPE, abrasives, welding consumables, power tools, hand tools, hire equipment and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcmaster.uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcmaster.uk.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.369

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcmaster.uk.com

25 ms

arcmaster.uk.com

189 ms

www.arcmaster.uk.com

207 ms

screen.556.css

12 ms

responsive.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Arcmaster.uk.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Arcmaster.uk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Arcmaster.uk.com main page is 2.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 109.8 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 39.6 kB, which is 36% 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 98.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Arcmaster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 345 B

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. Arcmaster.uk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arcmaster. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

arcmaster.uk.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

arcmaster.uk.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

arcmaster.uk.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arcmaster.uk.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 Arcmaster.uk.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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