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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

metaldyne.com

American Axle & Manufacturing | Delivering Power

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

647 ms

Page Rendered

246 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metaldyne.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 893 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metaldyne.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metaldyne.com

108 ms

www.aam.com

177 ms

uc.js

61 ms

vendor.js

24 ms

index.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Metaldyne.com, 73% (27 requests) were made to Aam.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) relates to the external source Aam.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

805.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metaldyne.com main page is 1.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 698.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 10.3 kB, which is 14% 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 53.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 698.7 kB
  • After minification 651.1 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. Metaldyne images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 161.2 kB
  • After minification 160.8 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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 95.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 91.6 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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. Metaldyne.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (58%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metaldyne. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

metaldyne.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

metaldyne.com best practices score

67

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

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

metaldyne.com SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Metaldyne.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 Metaldyne.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

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