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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

columbiatools.com

The World’s Best Automatic Drywall Tools | Columbia Taping Tools -

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

788 ms

Page Rendered

180 ms

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About Website

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Our commercial grade drywall taping tools are designed, fabricated, engineered and assembled in Canada from quality American steel, rubber, plastic and aluminum. Learn more about us, and what Columbia...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbiatools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 968 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbiatools.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.columbiatools.com

207 ms

styles.css

59 ms

widgets.css

30 ms

style.css

32 ms

custommenu.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Columbiatools.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.9 kB (53%)

Content Size

692.1 kB

After Optimization

327.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Columbiatools.com main page is 692.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 324.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 17.5 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 2.5 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 16.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 255.0 kB
  • After minification 249.6 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. Columbia Tools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 264.7 kB

  • Original 324.0 kB
  • After minification 227.8 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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 264.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 78.7 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Columbiatools.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 78.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbia Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.columbiatools.com

www.columbiatools.com

207 ms

styles.css

styles.css

59 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

30 ms

style.css

style.css

32 ms

custommenu.css

custommenu.css

31 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

70 ms

ccard.js

ccard.js

29 ms

validation.js

validation.js

70 ms

builder.js

builder.js

41 ms

effects.js

effects.js

82 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

81 ms

controls.js

controls.js

86 ms

slider.js

slider.js

86 ms

js.js

js.js

86 ms

form.js

form.js

89 ms

menu.js

menu.js

90 ms

translate.js

translate.js

91 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

91 ms

custommenu.js

custommenu.js

91 ms

all.js

all.js

268 ms

big-bkg2.jpg

big-bkg2.jpg

107 ms

45 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

33 ms

popup-since79.jpg

popup-since79.jpg

46 ms

bkg_btn-small.png

bkg_btn-small.png

30 ms

home_co_main.jpg

home_co_main.jpg

54 ms

home_co_tr.gif

home_co_tr.gif

58 ms

home_co_br.gif

home_co_br.gif

73 ms

home_co_bottom.gif

home_co_bottom.gif

75 ms

bottom-ad.jpg

bottom-ad.jpg

94 ms

footer_callout.png

footer_callout.png

93 ms

bkg_pipe1.gif

bkg_pipe1.gif

71 ms

i_rss.gif

i_rss.gif

92 ms

print.css

print.css

14 ms

Accessibility Review

columbiatools.com accessibility score

94

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

columbiatools.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

columbiatools.com SEO score

85

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Columbiatools.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 Columbiatools.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

columbiatools.com

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