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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gatesmfg.com

Custom food service conveyors & trough systems | Gates Manufacturing - 1-800-237-9226 - St. Louis, MO

Page Load Speed

715 ms in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

460 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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Gates Manufacturing designs, engineers, and fabricates high-quality conveyor systems & floor troughs for commercial food service facilities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatesmfg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 563 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatesmfg.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatesmfg.com

152 ms

style.css

47 ms

layout.css

64 ms

thickbox.css

65 ms

scripts.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Gatesmfg.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) belongs to the original domain Gatesmfg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 462.7 kB (55%)

Content Size

839.1 kB

After Optimization

376.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatesmfg.com main page is 839.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 692.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 1.7 kB, which is 16% 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 7.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 373.5 kB

  • Original 692.8 kB
  • After minification 319.3 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. Obviously, Gates Mfg needs image optimization as it can save up to 373.5 kB or 54% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 129.1 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 78.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Gatesmfg.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (28%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gates Mfg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gatesmfg.com accessibility score

42

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.

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gatesmfg.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gatesmfg.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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gatesmfg.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 Gatesmfg.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gates Mfg. 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: