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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

centralsteelandwire.com

Central Steel and Wire Company: Leading Metals Service Center and Fabricator - A Ryerson Company

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

855 ms

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About Website

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Central Steel and Wire is a leading metals distributor and fabricator with service centers in Chicago, Milwaukee, Lansing, Cincinnati and Greensboro

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsteelandwire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

centralsteelandwire.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.424

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centralsteel.com

163 ms

centralsteel.com

261 ms

www.centralsteel.com

435 ms

cswmain.css

42 ms

css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Centralsteelandwire.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (442 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsteelandwire.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 4.0 kB, which is 13% 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 23.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Central Steel And Wire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 175 B

  • Original 109.1 kB
  • After minification 109.1 kB
  • After compression 108.9 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 897 B

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Centralsteelandwire.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 897 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (34%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central Steel And Wire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centralsteel.com

centralsteel.com

163 ms

centralsteel.com

centralsteel.com

261 ms

www.centralsteel.com

www.centralsteel.com

435 ms

cswmain.css

cswmain.css

42 ms

css

css

61 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

77 ms

menu.js

menu.js

95 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

148 ms

royalslider.css

royalslider.css

94 ms

rs-universal.css

rs-universal.css

103 ms

jquery.royalslider.min.js

jquery.royalslider.min.js

97 ms

js

js

101 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

95 ms

usuals.js

usuals.js

81 ms

question.js

question.js

78 ms

floatmenu.js

floatmenu.js

80 ms

404.html

404.html

56 ms

404.html

404.html

54 ms

404.html

404.html

60 ms

CSWlogo.png

CSWlogo.png

146 ms

spot.png

spot.png

164 ms

Stock-List.png

Stock-List.png

171 ms

gobut_06.jpg

gobut_06.jpg

172 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

164 ms

calcicon.jpg

calcicon.jpg

169 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

179 ms

earthmover.jpg

earthmover.jpg

185 ms

mountainmetals.png

mountainmetals.png

208 ms

shadow-with-text.png

shadow-with-text.png

176 ms

combine.jpg

combine.jpg

202 ms

farmfab.png

farmfab.png

203 ms

farmshadowtext.png

farmshadowtext.png

181 ms

design-engineer.jpg

design-engineer.jpg

205 ms

engineer-stuff.png

engineer-stuff.png

207 ms

expertise-shadow.png

expertise-shadow.png

205 ms

quality.jpg

quality.jpg

228 ms

qualityquad.png

qualityquad.png

232 ms

quality-title.png

quality-title.png

230 ms

hometruck.jpg

hometruck.jpg

232 ms

servicequad.png

servicequad.png

305 ms

service-title.png

service-title.png

230 ms

assnlogos_01.jpg

assnlogos_01.jpg

229 ms

assnlogos_04.jpg

assnlogos_04.jpg

301 ms

assnlogos_05.jpg

assnlogos_05.jpg

302 ms

socicons_01.jpg

socicons_01.jpg

301 ms

socicons_02.jpg

socicons_02.jpg

284 ms

socicons_03.jpg

socicons_03.jpg

284 ms

socicons_04.jpg

socicons_04.jpg

378 ms

contact.png

contact.png

379 ms

map.jpg

map.jpg

377 ms

submit_03.jpg

submit_03.jpg

377 ms

close.jpg

close.jpg

377 ms

headback.jpg

headback.jpg

271 ms

subback.png

subback.png

292 ms

bsqr.png

bsqr.png

276 ms

subback2.png

subback2.png

276 ms

territory.jpg

territory.jpg

275 ms

oxyfuel.jpg

oxyfuel.jpg

271 ms

historyclip.jpg

historyclip.jpg

269 ms

customerclip.jpg

customerclip.jpg

264 ms

marketupdate.jpg

marketupdate.jpg

255 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

63 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVQ.woff

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVQ.woff

33 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQ.woff

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQ.woff

49 ms

counter.js

counter.js

108 ms

collect

collect

442 ms

collect

collect

386 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

41 ms

calciconmo.jpg

calciconmo.jpg

22 ms

searchmo.jpg

searchmo.jpg

22 ms

Accessibility Review

centralsteelandwire.com accessibility score

49

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

centralsteelandwire.com best practices score

50

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

centralsteelandwire.com SEO score

62

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

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 Centralsteelandwire.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 Centralsteelandwire.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

centralsteelandwire.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Central Steel And Wire. 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: