Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

westernrefractory.com

Refractory Construction and Maintenance Services | Western Refractory

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

About Website

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For over 35 years, Western Refractory has been leading the refractory construction industry providing refractory, civil, mechancial constrction, and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernrefractory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 3.9 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

westernrefractory.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value54.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,230 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westernrefractory.com

52 ms

www.westernrefractory.com

1407 ms

autoptimize_f1a7c95eaf153a9ff95ff4b13fe4f27f.css

17 ms

autoptimize_single_01760c0d461a1c0fef6f5f78c6937bbb.css

56 ms

autoptimize_single_91e4cd4185f9199f702dad4a77d10f19.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Westernrefractory.com, 22% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Westernrefractory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 595.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

17.6 MB

After Optimization

17.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Westernrefractory.com main page is 17.6 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. 80% 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 16.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 70.8 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 57.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 357.3 kB

  • Original 16.8 MB
  • After minification 16.4 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. Western Refractory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 513.4 kB
  • After minification 513.4 kB
  • After compression 475.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 143.1 kB

  • Original 209.5 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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. Westernrefractory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 143.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (52%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Refractory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westernrefractory.com accessibility score

95

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

[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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

westernrefractory.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

westernrefractory.com SEO score

91

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 Westernrefractory.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 Westernrefractory.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 data is detected on the main page of Western Refractory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: