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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

daleswelding.com

Welding, Commercial, Rail Replacement, Dale's Welding Service, Raleigh, NC

Page Load Speed

901 ms in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

525 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

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About Website

Visit daleswelding.com now to see the best up-to-date Dale S Welding content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about daleswelding.com

Dale's Welding Service is a fully insured welding company specializing in stair handrails on commercial buildings. Contact us for all your welding needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daleswelding.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 759 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

daleswelding.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 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)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

daleswelding.com

142 ms

style.css

67 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

98 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

162 ms

common-ck.js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Daleswelding.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (265 ms) belongs to the original domain Daleswelding.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

585.8 kB

After Optimization

474.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Daleswelding.com main page is 585.8 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. Images take 425.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 425.2 kB
  • After minification 420.1 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. Dale S Welding images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 84.3 kB

  • Original 132.7 kB
  • After minification 132.3 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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 84.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Daleswelding.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dale S Welding. 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

daleswelding.com

daleswelding.com

142 ms

style.css

style.css

67 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

98 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

162 ms

common-ck.js

common-ck.js

77 ms

plugins-ck.js

plugins-ck.js

120 ms

main-background.jpg

main-background.jpg

87 ms

background-home.jpg

background-home.jpg

265 ms

home-nav-border.png

home-nav-border.png

44 ms

dales-welding-logo.png

dales-welding-logo.png

86 ms

button.jpg

button.jpg

87 ms

button-hover.jpg

button-hover.jpg

89 ms

border.png

border.png

88 ms

vertical-border.png

vertical-border.png

88 ms

price.png

price.png

89 ms

check.png

check.png

116 ms

small-white.png

small-white.png

114 ms

Accessibility Review

daleswelding.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

daleswelding.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

daleswelding.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Daleswelding.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 Daleswelding.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

daleswelding.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dale S Welding. 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: