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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

buymetal.com

Online Metal Suppliers and Distributors | Buymetal.com

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

buymetal.com screenshot

About Website

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

Buymetal.com is your go-to online metal supplier with rock bottom prices on a wide variety of grades & shapes, standard or cut to size. Order metal online!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buymetal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buymetal.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,950 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.463

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buymetal.com

37 ms

store.buymetal.com

91 ms

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38 ms

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29 ms

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84 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Buymetal.com, 75% (135 requests) were made to Store.buymetal.com and 9% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (289 ms) relates to the external source Store.buymetal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

850.8 kB

After Optimization

722.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buymetal.com main page is 850.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 363.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 124.3 kB

  • Original 150.5 kB
  • After minification 149.3 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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. 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 124.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 177.5 kB
  • After minification 177.5 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. Buymetal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 363.7 kB
  • After minification 363.7 kB
  • After compression 361.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 159.0 kB
  • After compression 157.4 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. Buymetal.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 141 (91%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buymetal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 126 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

buymetal.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

buymetal.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

buymetal.com SEO score

86

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

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 Buymetal.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 Buymetal.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

buymetal.com

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