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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

castorswheelsdirect.com

Welcome to Castors & Wheels Direct Limited Birmingham UK

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

castorswheelsdirect.com screenshot

About Website

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Castors & Wheels Direct Limited (CWDL) - Midlands, Castors Manufacturer Birmingham, castors and wheels Digbeth, Birmingham. plastic wheels, castors, wheels and castors, plastic, wheels.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castorswheelsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castorswheelsdirect.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castorswheelsdirect.com

260 ms

cwmain.css

106 ms

bgb.gif

108 ms

cwlogo.jpg

296 ms

img1.gif

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Castorswheelsdirect.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (991 ms) belongs to the original domain Castorswheelsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.8 kB (45%)

Content Size

44.2 kB

After Optimization

24.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castorswheelsdirect.com main page is 44.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 20.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 2.5 kB, which is 12% 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 15.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 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. Castors Wheels Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Castorswheelsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

castorswheelsdirect.com

castorswheelsdirect.com

260 ms

cwmain.css

cwmain.css

106 ms

bgb.gif

bgb.gif

108 ms

cwlogo.jpg

cwlogo.jpg

296 ms

img1.gif

img1.gif

200 ms

slogan.gif

slogan.gif

208 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

207 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

209 ms

home_img1.gif

home_img1.gif

494 ms

e01.gif

e01.gif

301 ms

e02.gif

e02.gif

311 ms

e03.gif

e03.gif

314 ms

e04.gif

e04.gif

313 ms

fon01.jpg

fon01.jpg

405 ms

01_poly.gif

01_poly.gif

401 ms

02_CastIron.gif

02_CastIron.gif

415 ms

03_rubber.gif

03_rubber.gif

416 ms

movie.gif

movie.gif

991 ms

cw_catalog.gif

cw_catalog.gif

526 ms

topfade.gif

topfade.gif

505 ms

Accessibility Review

castorswheelsdirect.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

castorswheelsdirect.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

castorswheelsdirect.com SEO score

50

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

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Castorswheelsdirect.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 Castorswheelsdirect.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

castorswheelsdirect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Castors Wheels Direct. 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: