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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

mscdirect.com

MSC Industrial Supply - Metalworking tools and MRO Supplies

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

416 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

705 ms

About Website

Visit mscdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date MSC Direct content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mscdirect.com

MSC Industrial Supply is the source for your metalworking tool and MRO needs. Over 1.5 million products from industry leading suppliers in stock and ready to ship

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mscdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 416 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mscdirect.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mscdirect.com

416 ms

ha-I-thall-thats-dos-strike-our-Lord-vile-did-le

12 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA7NQVfhqrtux_10289240325103055.js

132 ms

htmx.min.js

151 ms

app.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Mscdirect.com, 83% (94 requests) were made to Cdn.mscdirect.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.mscdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 564.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mscdirect.com main page is 1.9 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 770.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 257.3 kB

  • Original 286.2 kB
  • After minification 225.3 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 60.9 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 257.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 770.5 kB
  • After minification 770.5 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. MSC Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 183.6 kB

  • Original 589.1 kB
  • After minification 583.2 kB
  • After compression 405.5 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 183.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 123.6 kB

  • Original 238.0 kB
  • After minification 223.8 kB
  • After compression 114.4 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. Mscdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (33%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MSC Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mscdirect.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

mscdirect.com 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

mscdirect.com SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Mscdirect.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 Mscdirect.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 MSC Direct. 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: