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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

metalshims.com

Shims • Alignment Tools • Supplies - American Metals Co./ MetalShims.com

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

308 ms

Resources Loaded

691 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

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Since 1984, American Metals Co. has been manufacturing high quality metal shims, including AMC Accu-size brand pre-cut stainless steel slotted shims and custom shims/shim stock for industrial applicat...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalshims.com page load time and found that the first response time was 308 ms and then it took 851 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metalshims.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalshims.com

308 ms

core.js

140 ms

style.css

156 ms

WebResource.axd

140 ms

formvalidate.js

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Metalshims.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) belongs to the original domain Metalshims.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.0 kB (40%)

Content Size

279.0 kB

After Optimization

168.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalshims.com main page is 279.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 102.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 90.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 85.0 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. Metals Hims images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 77.1 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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 11.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Metalshims.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (61%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metals Hims. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalshims.com

metalshims.com

308 ms

core.js

core.js

140 ms

style.css

style.css

156 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

140 ms

formvalidate.js

formvalidate.js

161 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

147 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

146 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

213 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

218 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

name905x136.gif

name905x136.gif

143 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

127 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

127 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

128 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

129 ms

creditcards.jpg

creditcards.jpg

129 ms

precut_shim_flyer.jpg

precut_shim_flyer.jpg

212 ms

more2.gif

more2.gif

144 ms

no-micrometer.jpg

no-micrometer.jpg

148 ms

kitthumb.jpg

kitthumb.jpg

199 ms

shimpackthumb-menu.jpg

shimpackthumb-menu.jpg

199 ms

customers.gif

customers.gif

214 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

your-account.gif

your-account.gif

98 ms

cart.gif

cart.gif

99 ms

nav-bg.gif

nav-bg.gif

146 ms

sub-nav-fade.gif

sub-nav-fade.gif

147 ms

nav-header-bg.gif

nav-header-bg.gif

160 ms

left-nav-bg.gif

left-nav-bg.gif

162 ms

Accessibility Review

metalshims.com accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metalshims.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

metalshims.com SEO score

62

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

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 Metalshims.com 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 Metalshims.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

metalshims.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metals Hims. 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: