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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

m.ferguson.com

Plumbing Supplies, HVAC Parts, Pipe, Valves & Fittings – Ferguson

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

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About Website

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Ferguson sells quality plumbing supplies, HVAC products, and building supplies to professional contractors and homeowners.

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.ferguson.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.4 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

m.ferguson.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.431

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ferguson.com

1029 ms

0ac41ce5ffe0b8511847632dcbfd3219080012f4d3e6

82 ms

api_dynamic.js

80 ms

api_static.js

104 ms

main.js

269 ms

Our browser made a total of 221 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original M.ferguson.com, 9% (20 requests) were made to Ferguson.com and 3% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.c1.amplience.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Ferguson.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.ferguson.com main page is 4.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 281.2 kB

  • Original 326.8 kB
  • After minification 326.3 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 281.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. M Ferguson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 508.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 566.6 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 508.5 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 398.1 kB

  • Original 475.6 kB
  • After minification 475.6 kB
  • After compression 77.5 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. M.ferguson.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 398.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (15%)

Requests Now

219

After Optimization

187

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 219 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Ferguson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ferguson.com

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Accessibility Review

m.ferguson.com accessibility score

88

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

m.ferguson.com best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

m.ferguson.com SEO score

85

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

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 M.ferguson.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 M.ferguson.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

m.ferguson.com

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