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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

littlehardware.com

Little Hardware | Charlotte, NC Hardware Store, Industrial Supply, Tools and Supplies

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

635 ms

Page Rendered

341 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Littlehardware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 976 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

littlehardware.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.littlehardware.com

327 ms

inet.css

189 ms

theme.css

150 ms

additions.css

151 ms

all.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Littlehardware.com, 25% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (327 ms) belongs to the original domain Littlehardware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.5 kB (55%)

Content Size

569.7 kB

After Optimization

258.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Littlehardware.com main page is 569.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 188.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 46.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 10.8 kB, which is 19% 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 48.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 157.6 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. Little Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 112.1 kB

  • Original 165.0 kB
  • After minification 165.0 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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 112.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 149.1 kB

  • Original 188.7 kB
  • After minification 188.4 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Littlehardware.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (67%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Little Hardware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.littlehardware.com

www.littlehardware.com

327 ms

inet.css

inet.css

189 ms

theme.css

theme.css

150 ms

additions.css

additions.css

151 ms

all.css

all.css

31 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

228 ms

js

js

63 ms

theme.js

theme.js

156 ms

alpine.min.js

alpine.min.js

34 ms

alpine-ie11.min.js

alpine-ie11.min.js

49 ms

scripts1580147107903.min.js

scripts1580147107903.min.js

191 ms

customer_logo.png

customer_logo.png

76 ms

sprite_home.png

sprite_home.png

82 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

14 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

14 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

26 ms

Accessibility Review

littlehardware.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

littlehardware.com 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

littlehardware.com SEO score

88

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Littlehardware.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 Littlehardware.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

littlehardware.com

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