Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

metaloffcuts.co.uk

Home - High Quality Sheet Metal

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

889 ms

metaloffcuts.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metaloffcuts.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metaloffcuts.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.205

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metaloffcuts.co.uk

40 ms

metaloffcuts.co.uk

1855 ms

js

56 ms

main.min.css

35 ms

css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Metaloffcuts.co.uk, 18% (25 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Metaloffcuts.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Metaloffcuts.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 611.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 245.8 kB

  • Original 294.4 kB
  • After minification 286.8 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 245.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 424.4 kB
  • After minification 424.4 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. Metal Offcuts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 680 B

  • Original 611.9 kB
  • After minification 611.9 kB
  • After compression 611.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 263.7 kB
  • After minification 261.7 kB
  • After compression 261.2 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. Metaloffcuts.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (80%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Offcuts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metaloffcuts.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metaloffcuts.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

metaloffcuts.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Metaloffcuts.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 Metaloffcuts.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Metal Offcuts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: