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centralsteel.com

Central Steel and Wire Company: Leading Metals Service Center and Fabricator - A Ryerson Company

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

About Website

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Central Steel and Wire is a leading metals distributor and fabricator with service centers in Chicago, Milwaukee, Lansing, Cincinnati and Greensboro

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsteel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

centralsteel.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

centralsteel.com

126 ms

centralsteel.com

602 ms

lrl8qad.css

136 ms

cswcss

197 ms

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Centralsteel.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 610.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsteel.com main page is 5.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 178.0 kB

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 160.0 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 42.9 kB, which is 21% 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 178.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 363.4 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Central Steel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 458.5 kB
  • After minification 458.5 kB
  • After compression 418.8 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

-37%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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. Centralsteel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.0 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (55%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

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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 Centralsteel.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 Centralsteel.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

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