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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 38

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

charlestonauctions.com

Charleston Auctions - International Industrial Auctioneers

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

520 ms

Page Rendered

360 ms

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About Website

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Charleston Auctions is a global provider of industrial asset disposition services including auctions, liquidations, and privately negotiated sales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlestonauctions.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 880 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlestonauctions.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlestonauctions.com

127 ms

login.css

34 ms

ga.js

11 ms

CVBackground_001_optimized.jpg

226 ms

logo.jpg

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Charlestonauctions.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) belongs to the original domain Charlestonauctions.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

360.7 kB

After Optimization

323.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlestonauctions.com main page is 360.7 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 305.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 5.9 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 31.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 305.6 kB
  • After minification 300.0 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. Charleston Auctions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 35 B

  • Original 299 B
  • After minification 299 B
  • After compression 264 B

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. Charlestonauctions.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (49%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charleston Auctions. 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

charlestonauctions.com

charlestonauctions.com

127 ms

login.css

login.css

34 ms

ga.js

ga.js

11 ms

CVBackground_001_optimized.jpg

CVBackground_001_optimized.jpg

226 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

67 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

68 ms

subnav_left_curve.png

subnav_left_curve.png

71 ms

subnav_main_bg.png

subnav_main_bg.png

70 ms

subnav_arrow_bg.png

subnav_arrow_bg.png

73 ms

subnav_right_curve.png

subnav_right_curve.png

108 ms

sm_charleston_ad_auctions_final.jpg

sm_charleston_ad_auctions_final.jpg

136 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

107 ms

auction_details.gif

auction_details.gif

108 ms

view_catalog.gif

view_catalog.gif

108 ms

tab_bg.jpg

tab_bg.jpg

138 ms

module_left_corner.png

module_left_corner.png

137 ms

module_bg.gif

module_bg.gif

141 ms

module_right_corner.png

module_right_corner.png

137 ms

auctions_tab.png

auctions_tab.png

171 ms

white_circle.png

white_circle.png

171 ms

past_auction_ad.png

past_auction_ad.png

205 ms

module_bottom_left.png

module_bottom_left.png

172 ms

charlestonauctions.com

charlestonauctions.com

202 ms

module_bottom_right_blue.png

module_bottom_right_blue.png

203 ms

module2_left_corner.png

module2_left_corner.png

203 ms

module2_bg.gif

module2_bg.gif

204 ms

module2_right_corner.png

module2_right_corner.png

234 ms

module2_bottom_bg2.gif

module2_bottom_bg2.gif

235 ms

email_signup.gif

email_signup.gif

237 ms

signup.png

signup.png

238 ms

Regal%20Beloit.jpg

Regal%20Beloit.jpg

237 ms

Star%20Financial%20Bank.jpg

Star%20Financial%20Bank.jpg

252 ms

Stock%20Building%20Supply%20cropped.jpg

Stock%20Building%20Supply%20cropped.jpg

255 ms

Symmetry%20Medical%20Logo.gif

Symmetry%20Medical%20Logo.gif

266 ms

wells_fargo_side_logo.jpg

wells_fargo_side_logo.jpg

267 ms

Wolseley.gif

Wolseley.gif

267 ms

blue_chip_logo.jpg

blue_chip_logo.jpg

276 ms

logo_facebook.png

logo_facebook.png

284 ms

logo_twitter.png

logo_twitter.png

286 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

module2_bottom_left.png

module2_bottom_left.png

238 ms

module2_bottom_bg.gif

module2_bottom_bg.gif

238 ms

module2_bottom_right.png

module2_bottom_right.png

235 ms

module_header_clientlogin.gif

module_header_clientlogin.gif

236 ms

module_bottom_right.png

module_bottom_right.png

251 ms

selected_auction_bg.gif

selected_auction_bg.gif

217 ms

Accessibility Review

charlestonauctions.com accessibility score

38

Accessibility Issues

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

charlestonauctions.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

charlestonauctions.com SEO score

58

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

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 Charlestonauctions.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 Charlestonauctions.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

charlestonauctions.com

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