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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

weldingsuperstore.co.uk

The Welding Superstore | Welding Supplies | Welding Equipment

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

471 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Welding Superstore content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about weldingsuperstore.co.uk

The Welding Superstore bring you a range of welding supplies and welding equipment. Take a look at our welding products today we are sure to have exactly what your after.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weldingsuperstore.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weldingsuperstore.co.uk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weldingsuperstore.co.uk

209 ms

weldingsuperstore.co.uk

584 ms

427a37525a1494b687d493cd1edd5cdf.min.css

284 ms

styles-l.min.css

278 ms

decb7cee253fcafae6886e75c6abcc76.min.js

358 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Weldingsuperstore.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Js.klarna.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Weldingsuperstore.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.4 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

732.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weldingsuperstore.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 759.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 156.4 kB

  • Original 177.2 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 19.9 kB, which is 11% 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 156.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 759.5 kB
  • After minification 672.5 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. Obviously, Welding Superstore needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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

-92%

Potential reduce by 106.0 kB

  • Original 115.4 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Weldingsuperstore.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (79%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welding Superstore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 103 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

weldingsuperstore.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

weldingsuperstore.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weldingsuperstore.co.uk SEO score

82

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

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 Weldingsuperstore.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 Weldingsuperstore.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 description is not detected on the main page of Welding Superstore. 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: