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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

general-steel.com

General Steel Warehouse | Full Service Metal Supplier

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

613 ms

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About Website

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General Steel Warehouse is a full-service metal provider serving Lubbock and surrounding areas since 1948.

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Key Findings

We analyzed General-steel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

general-steel.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,360 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

general-steel.com

124 ms

www.general-steel.com

1551 ms

style.min.css

12 ms

styles.css

20 ms

uaf.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original General-steel.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain General-steel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 658.3 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

588.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of General-steel.com main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 779.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 136.3 kB
  • After minification 134.0 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 111.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 349.2 kB

  • Original 779.7 kB
  • After minification 773.6 kB
  • After compression 430.5 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 349.2 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 197.4 kB

  • Original 330.2 kB
  • After minification 330.0 kB
  • After compression 132.8 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. General-steel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (86%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of General Steel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

general-steel.com

general-steel.com

124 ms

www.general-steel.com

www.general-steel.com

1551 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

12 ms

styles.css

styles.css

20 ms

uaf.css

uaf.css

42 ms

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

29 ms

grid-system.css

grid-system.css

41 ms

style.css

style.css

33 ms

header-layout-menu-left-aligned.css

header-layout-menu-left-aligned.css

28 ms

header-perma-transparent.css

header-perma-transparent.css

42 ms

element-testimonial.css

element-testimonial.css

50 ms

element-fancy-box.css

element-fancy-box.css

46 ms

element-fancy-unordered-list.css

element-fancy-unordered-list.css

48 ms

element-wpb-column-border.css

element-wpb-column-border.css

44 ms

cf7.css

cf7.css

49 ms

css

css

76 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

45 ms

flickity.css

flickity.css

63 ms

skin-material.css

skin-material.css

65 ms

menu-dynamic.css

menu-dynamic.css

64 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

61 ms

salient-dynamic-styles.css

salient-dynamic-styles.css

52 ms

style.css

style.css

59 ms

style-non-critical.css

style-non-critical.css

64 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

67 ms

core.css

core.css

64 ms

fullscreen-legacy.css

fullscreen-legacy.css

66 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

66 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

64 ms

index.js

index.js

66 ms

index.js

index.js

67 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

69 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

66 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

68 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

67 ms

priority.js

priority.js

69 ms

transit.min.js

transit.min.js

214 ms

waypoints.js

waypoints.js

213 ms

api.js

api.js

239 ms

imagesLoaded.min.js

imagesLoaded.min.js

215 ms

hoverintent.min.js

hoverintent.min.js

212 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

207 ms

anime.min.js

anime.min.js

193 ms

flickity.js

flickity.js

193 ms

vivus.min.js

vivus.min.js

197 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

197 ms

init.js

init.js

200 ms

touchswipe.min.js

touchswipe.min.js

197 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

193 ms

index.js

index.js

193 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

193 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

260 ms

Nev-Logo-Gray-Type.svg

Nev-Logo-Gray-Type.svg

115 ms

Genreal-Steel-Warehouse-Logos-white.svg

Genreal-Steel-Warehouse-Logos-white.svg

117 ms

LowRes_2023_GeneralSteel_110.webp

LowRes_2023_GeneralSteel_110.webp

124 ms

EST-1948-10.svg

EST-1948-10.svg

121 ms

Footer-Logo-Grayscale-White.svg

Footer-Logo-Grayscale-White.svg

119 ms

3837Gen-Steel-body.woff

3837Gen-Steel-body.woff

102 ms

3975General-Steel-Bold.woff

3975General-Steel-Bold.woff

168 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

52 ms

5800Gen-Steel-Condensed.woff

5800Gen-Steel-Condensed.woff

53 ms

5593GeneralSTeel-Normal.woff

5593GeneralSTeel-Normal.woff

87 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

203 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

53 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

4 ms

Accessibility Review

general-steel.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

general-steel.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

general-steel.com SEO score

93

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

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 General-steel.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 General-steel.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of General Steel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: