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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

metalhardware.co.uk

Metal Hardware | The Place For All Your Hardware Needs

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

metalhardware.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to metalhardware.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Metal Hardware best content right away, or after learning these important things about metalhardware.co.uk

Suppliers of all things metal with a vast online product catalogue. Based in Bristol, we can deliver next-day to all over the UK.

Visit metalhardware.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Metalhardware.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metalhardware.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalhardware.co.uk

271 ms

metalhardware.co.uk

2179 ms

c8a0739b7178cdad3866704a91e09c3e.min.css

392 ms

styles-l.min.css

239 ms

require.js

311 ms

Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (194 requests) were addressed to the original Metalhardware.co.uk, 5% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Metalhardware.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalhardware.co.uk main page is 2.7 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 221.7 kB
  • After minification 189.4 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 32.3 kB, which is 15% 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 198.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Metal Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 239.0 kB

  • Original 658.4 kB
  • After minification 654.2 kB
  • After compression 419.4 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 239.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 434 B

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 156.9 kB
  • After compression 156.5 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. Metalhardware.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 155 (79%)

Requests Now

197

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 197 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal 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 150 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalhardware.co.uk

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271 ms

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2179 ms

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239 ms

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Accessibility Review

metalhardware.co.uk accessibility score

75

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

metalhardware.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metalhardware.co.uk 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

    UTF-8

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

metalhardware.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metal 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: