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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

balesusa.com

Metal Plating, Coatings, and Finishing Solutions | Bales

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

591 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Bales Usa content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about balesusa.com

Bales leads the metal finishing industry in engineered coatings and finishes, delivering optimum solutions to prevent corrosion, abrasion and wear problems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balesusa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balesusa.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value3.334

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balesusa.com

73 ms

www.balesusa.com

97 ms

es.css

35 ms

bales-color.css

50 ms

jquery.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Balesusa.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (343 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.heapanalytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (65%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

567.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balesusa.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 746.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 73.7 kB

  • Original 86.3 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 31.9 kB, which is 37% 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 73.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 89.5 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. Bales Usa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 384.4 kB

  • Original 746.5 kB
  • After minification 700.4 kB
  • After compression 362.1 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 384.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 605.1 kB

  • Original 708.5 kB
  • After minification 609.1 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. Balesusa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 605.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (52%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bales Usa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balesusa.com

balesusa.com

73 ms

www.balesusa.com

www.balesusa.com

97 ms

es.css

es.css

35 ms

bales-color.css

bales-color.css

50 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

58 ms

google-places-review.css

google-places-review.css

50 ms

js

js

110 ms

google-places-review.js

google-places-review.js

91 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

94 ms

functions.js

functions.js

110 ms

custom.js

custom.js

94 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

22 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

21 ms

bat.js

bat.js

95 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

154 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

201 ms

hotjar-40839.js

hotjar-40839.js

172 ms

hotjar-2556355.js

hotjar-2556355.js

172 ms

heap-3627999307.js

heap-3627999307.js

343 ms

imde.jpg

imde.jpg

73 ms

bales-usa-logo.svg

bales-usa-logo.svg

68 ms

logo_bales-mobile.svg

logo_bales-mobile.svg

70 ms

bales-separator-here.svg

bales-separator-here.svg

72 ms

Scroll-down-icon.png

Scroll-down-icon.png

68 ms

balesusa-slide-1-compressed-min.webp

balesusa-slide-1-compressed-min.webp

73 ms

balesusa-slide-2-compressed-min.webp

balesusa-slide-2-compressed-min.webp

108 ms

headerimage1-min-compressed-min.webp

headerimage1-min-compressed-min.webp

104 ms

balesusa-slider-4-compressed-min.webp

balesusa-slider-4-compressed-min.webp

106 ms

balesusa-slider-5-compressed.webp

balesusa-slider-5-compressed.webp

107 ms

baleshomegif.gif

baleshomegif.gif

274 ms

bales-icon.svg

bales-icon.svg

102 ms

a-coating-for-every-challenge.png

a-coating-for-every-challenge.png

149 ms

common-and-complex-surface-finishing.png

common-and-complex-surface-finishing.png

149 ms

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process-matters_-what-you-should-know.png

152 ms

rectangle-17.png

rectangle-17.png

152 ms

icon-ref-guide.svg

icon-ref-guide.svg

147 ms

group-388.svg

group-388.svg

188 ms

icon-product-education.svg

icon-product-education.svg

191 ms

balesusa-dark-logo.svg

balesusa-dark-logo.svg

189 ms

group-444.svg

group-444.svg

191 ms

finalist-wd-2024-spark-badge.png

finalist-wd-2024-spark-badge.png

189 ms

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iso.svg

213 ms

wbenc-logo-white.png

wbenc-logo-white.png

221 ms

winner-culture-2024-spark-badge.png

winner-culture-2024-spark-badge.png

227 ms

4021308.js

4021308.js

18 ms

custom.css

custom.css

33 ms

custom.css

custom.css

40 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

46 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

42 ms

style.css

style.css

47 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

43 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

81 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

36 ms

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56 ms

omv8msb.css

omv8msb.css

268 ms

p.css

p.css

25 ms

style.css

style.css

47 ms

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13 ms

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30 ms

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18 ms

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113 ms

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29 ms

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110 ms

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73 ms

inspiro-icons.ttf

inspiro-icons.ttf

74 ms

core.js

core.js

141 ms

core.js

core.js

135 ms

Accessibility Review

balesusa.com accessibility score

67

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

balesusa.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

balesusa.com SEO score

79

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balesusa.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Balesusa.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

balesusa.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bales Usa. 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: