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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hardwarecity.com.sg

HardwareCity - Best Hardware Store In Singapore | Online DIY Store

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

763 ms

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

hardwarecity.com.sg screenshot

About Website

Welcome to hardwarecity.com.sg homepage info - get ready to check Hardware City best content for Singapore right away, or after learning these important things about hardwarecity.com.sg

A large player in the Singapore building & industrial Hardware Industry, HardwareCity has become a one-stop solution hardware supplier. With the ability to shop online 24/7 and shipping worldwide, we ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardwarecity.com.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 763 ms and then it took 11.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hardwarecity.com.sg performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardwarecity.com.sg

763 ms

hardwarecity.com.sg

3016 ms

css2

32 ms

bootstrap.min.css

268 ms

font-awesome.min.css

531 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Hardwarecity.com.sg, 11% (14 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hardwarecity.com.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (12%)

Content Size

13.6 MB

After Optimization

12.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardwarecity.com.sg main page is 13.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 12.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 151.3 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 39.7 kB, which is 26% 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 134.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 12.8 MB
  • After minification 11.3 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. Obviously, Hardware City needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 460.7 kB
  • After minification 460.7 kB
  • After compression 455.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 321 B

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 196.2 kB
  • After compression 195.9 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. Hardwarecity.com.sg has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (30%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

88

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hardware City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardwarecity.com.sg

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763 ms

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Accessibility Review

hardwarecity.com.sg accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hardwarecity.com.sg best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hardwarecity.com.sg SEO score

83

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 Hardwarecity.com.sg 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 Hardwarecity.com.sg 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

hardwarecity.com.sg

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