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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

fastenal.com

Page Load Speed

326 ms in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

171 ms

Page Rendered

74 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fastenal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 245 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Fastenal.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

fastenal.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.759

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fastenal.com

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Fastenal.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (81 ms) belongs to the original domain Fastenal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

701.9 kB

After Optimization

600.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Fastenal.com main page is 701.9 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 596.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 95 B

  • Original 292 B
  • After minification 288 B
  • After compression 197 B

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 95 B or 33% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 596.7 kB
  • After minification 568.6 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. Fastenal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 73.7 kB

  • Original 104.9 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 73.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

www.fastenal.com

www.fastenal.com

81 ms

Accessibility Review

fastenal.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

fastenal.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fastenal.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fastenal.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 Fastenal.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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