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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

caford.com

Chair Kits | Castors | Gas Lifts | Caford Australia

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

712 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

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About Website

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Specialising in the supply of components to seating and bedding manufacturers. Caford components include castors, gas lifts and chair kits.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caford.com page load time and found that the first response time was 712 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caford.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caford.com

712 ms

caford.com

1808 ms

main.css

489 ms

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

1221 ms

products-menu.js

747 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Caford.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Caford.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

601.2 kB

After Optimization

466.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caford.com main page is 601.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 451.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 2.9 kB, which is 16% 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 14.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 451.8 kB
  • After minification 405.7 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. Caford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 116.8 kB
  • After minification 115.4 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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 62.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Caford.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (36%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Caford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

caford.com

caford.com

712 ms

caford.com

caford.com

1808 ms

main.css

main.css

489 ms

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

1221 ms

products-menu.js

products-menu.js

747 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

29 ms

caford-logo.jpg

caford-logo.jpg

501 ms

search-submit.jpg

search-submit.jpg

263 ms

image-nav-previous.gif

image-nav-previous.gif

501 ms

image-nav-next.gif

image-nav-next.gif

514 ms

chairBanner_002.jpg

chairBanner_002.jpg

1233 ms

Banner_education.jpg

Banner_education.jpg

989 ms

CAFord_Banner_Dflat.jpg

CAFord_Banner_Dflat.jpg

1232 ms

CAFord_BannerFlat.jpg

CAFord_BannerFlat.jpg

1514 ms

CAFord_Banner_Stools.jpg

CAFord_Banner_Stools.jpg

1265 ms

nylon-chair-bases.jpg

nylon-chair-bases.jpg

974 ms

ORION-03_new_small.jpg

ORION-03_new_small.jpg

1219 ms

bed-leg-castors.jpg

bed-leg-castors.jpg

1234 ms

TC-01-(2)_new.jpg

TC-01-(2)_new.jpg

1464 ms

header-shadow.png

header-shadow.png

1470 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

62 ms

product-bar-background.jpg

product-bar-background.jpg

718 ms

slide-link-background.jpg

slide-link-background.jpg

720 ms

footer-background.jpg

footer-background.jpg

757 ms

quicklink-heading-background.jpg

quicklink-heading-background.jpg

949 ms

print.css

print.css

246 ms

Accessibility Review

caford.com accessibility score

63

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

caford.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

caford.com SEO score

62

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Caford.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 Caford.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

caford.com

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