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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

hardwaredirect.co.nz

Hardware Supplier NZ | Auto-Doors, Locks & Hardware Suppliers Auckland | Hardware Direct

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hardwaredirect.co.nz homepage info - get ready to check Hardware Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about hardwaredirect.co.nz

Trusted NZ hardware supplier with 20+ years’ experience in auto-doors, locks and hardware solutions. Expert installation & 24/7 servicing. Find out more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardwaredirect.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hardwaredirect.co.nz performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.454

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardwaredirect.co.nz

2306 ms

qst0kjf.js

73 ms

css

21 ms

angular.js

1070 ms

underscore.js

428 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Hardwaredirect.co.nz, 8% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hardwaredirect.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardwaredirect.co.nz main page is 3.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 15.3 kB, which is 40% 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 32.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 409.9 kB

  • Original 3.0 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. Obviously, Hardware Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 409.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 94.4 kB

  • Original 417.9 kB
  • After minification 374.5 kB
  • After compression 323.5 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 94.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Hardwaredirect.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (63%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hardware Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardwaredirect.co.nz

hardwaredirect.co.nz

2306 ms

qst0kjf.js

qst0kjf.js

73 ms

css

css

21 ms

angular.js

angular.js

1070 ms

underscore.js

underscore.js

428 ms

angular-resource.js

angular-resource.js

427 ms

angular-animate.js

angular-animate.js

640 ms

angular-sanitize.js

angular-sanitize.js

429 ms

ng-table.js

ng-table.js

430 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

9 ms

styles.css

styles.css

854 ms

gallery-item.js

gallery-item.js

639 ms

videos-item.js

videos-item.js

644 ms

product.js

product.js

643 ms

search-item.js

search-item.js

852 ms

GalleryController.js

GalleryController.js

852 ms

VideosController.js

VideosController.js

858 ms

MainController.js

MainController.js

858 ms

SearchController.js

SearchController.js

1064 ms

gallery-filter.js

gallery-filter.js

1065 ms

video-popup.js

video-popup.js

1065 ms

app.js

app.js

1165 ms

ng-application-bootstrap.js

ng-application-bootstrap.js

1164 ms

jquery.customSelect.min.js

jquery.customSelect.min.js

1276 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

1278 ms

jquery.cycle2.carousel.js

jquery.cycle2.carousel.js

1277 ms

jquery.zoom.js

jquery.zoom.js

1282 ms

site.js

site.js

1284 ms

slippry.js

slippry.js

1285 ms

jquery.flexisel.js

jquery.flexisel.js

1489 ms

slide-menu.js

slide-menu.js

1490 ms

search.js

search.js

1491 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

1494 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

451 ms

mob-close.png

mob-close.png

451 ms

hardware-direct.png

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581 ms

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581 ms

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582 ms

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584 ms

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590 ms

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592 ms

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1640 ms

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1659 ms

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1017 ms

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2297 ms

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1850 ms

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29 ms

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38 ms

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39 ms

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39 ms

Lato-Bold.woff

Lato-Bold.woff

1786 ms

ga.js

ga.js

67 ms

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1425 ms

sy-loader.gif

sy-loader.gif

1430 ms

prev.png

prev.png

1621 ms

next.png

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1625 ms

highlight.png

highlight.png

1638 ms

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p.gif

23 ms

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

hardwaredirect.co.nz accessibility score

71

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

hardwaredirect.co.nz 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hardwaredirect.co.nz SEO score

75

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hardwaredirect.co.nz 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 Hardwaredirect.co.nz 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

hardwaredirect.co.nz

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