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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

metalsheets.co.uk

Copper brass zinc and pewter - Fabrication & Sheet Sales

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

885 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

About Website

Welcome to metalsheets.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Metal Sheet S best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about metalsheets.co.uk

Discover high-quality sheet metal work or buy high-quality sheet metals - Trade, commercial and residential - UK and Worldwide - Natural or patina aged metals

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalsheets.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 885 ms and then it took 4.3 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

metalsheets.co.uk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalsheets.co.uk

885 ms

style.min.css

94 ms

frontend.min.css

177 ms

foobox.free.min.css

248 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Metalsheets.co.uk, 8% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Metalsheets.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

14.9 MB

After Optimization

14.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalsheets.co.uk main page is 14.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 14.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 144.6 kB

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 134.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 27.4 kB, which is 17% 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 144.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 198.3 kB

  • Original 14.6 MB
  • After minification 14.4 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. Metal Sheet S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 79.3 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 44.5 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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. Metalsheets.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (22%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Sheet S. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

metalsheets.co.uk accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

metalsheets.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

metalsheets.co.uk SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Metalsheets.co.uk 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 Metalsheets.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Metal Sheet S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: