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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

publicsurplus.com

Public Surplus: Government Surplus Auctions

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

464 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Public Surplus content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about publicsurplus.com

Public Surplus is the best government surplus auction system available. Find great deals on heavy equipment, cars, buses and even airplanes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publicsurplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

publicsurplus.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

publicsurplus.com

12 ms

home

301 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

331 ms

bootstrap.min.css

345 ms

ps-v2.css

301 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Publicsurplus.com, 40% (48 requests) were made to Errorstack.appspot.com and 30% (36 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Errorstack.appspot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

568.9 kB

After Optimization

417.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Publicsurplus.com main page is 568.9 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 280.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 129.2 kB

  • Original 145.3 kB
  • After minification 127.8 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 17.6 kB, which is 12% 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 129.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 280.2 kB
  • After minification 274.3 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. Public Surplus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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 12.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. Publicsurplus.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (62%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Surplus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

publicsurplus.com accessibility score

49

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

publicsurplus.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

publicsurplus.com SEO score

62

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Publicsurplus.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 Publicsurplus.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 Public Surplus. 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: