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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ircalum.com

IRC Aluminum and Stainless | Waterjet Cutting — Metal Supplier

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

ircalum.com screenshot

About Website

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IRC, your #1 source for Waterjet cutting services; stainless steel and aluminum plate products. 304, 316, 17-4. 6061, 5052. OR, WA, CA, ID, NV, MT

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ircalum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ircalum.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.26

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ircalum.com

72 ms

ircalum.com

251 ms

default.css

60 ms

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

293 ms

lib.js

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Ircalum.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (441 ms) belongs to the original domain Ircalum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

961.2 kB

After Optimization

929.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ircalum.com main page is 961.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 888.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 1.8 kB, which is 13% 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 9.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 888.0 kB
  • After minification 868.3 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. IRC Alum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 189 B

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Ircalum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (23%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IRC Alum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ircalum.com

ircalum.com

72 ms

ircalum.com

ircalum.com

251 ms

default.css

default.css

60 ms

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

293 ms

lib.js

lib.js

230 ms

css

css

31 ms

reset.css

reset.css

62 ms

styles.css

styles.css

217 ms

tablet.css

tablet.css

230 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

121 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

51 ms

irc_logo_top.png

irc_logo_top.png

64 ms

icon_map_wt.png

icon_map_wt.png

63 ms

pic_waterjet1.jpg

pic_waterjet1.jpg

279 ms

pic_floorstacks.jpg

pic_floorstacks.jpg

280 ms

pic_omax.jpg

pic_omax.jpg

109 ms

icons_materials_sheets.png

icons_materials_sheets.png

63 ms

icons_materials_bars.png

icons_materials_bars.png

175 ms

icons_materials_pipes.png

icons_materials_pipes.png

120 ms

pic_chaining.jpg

pic_chaining.jpg

177 ms

pic_sheets.jpg

pic_sheets.jpg

218 ms

pic_sign.jpg

pic_sign.jpg

234 ms

pic_tri.jpg

pic_tri.jpg

235 ms

pic_cutting.jpg

pic_cutting.jpg

238 ms

pic_slab.jpg

pic_slab.jpg

274 ms

icon_phone_wt.png

icon_phone_wt.png

294 ms

icon_mail_wt.png

icon_mail_wt.png

293 ms

irc_logo.png

irc_logo.png

298 ms

icon_link.png

icon_link.png

332 ms

icon_face.png

icon_face.png

338 ms

icon_in.png

icon_in.png

339 ms

icon_yt.png

icon_yt.png

353 ms

bk_flanges.png

bk_flanges.png

441 ms

font

font

40 ms

font

font

13 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

65 ms

Accessibility Review

ircalum.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ircalum.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ircalum.com 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 Ircalum.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 Ircalum.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

ircalum.com

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