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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

metalsupermarkets.co.uk

Metal Supermarkets UK | Buy Stainless Steel, Aluminium, Bright, Black, Engineering, Bronze, Copper, Brass, Tool, Galvanised

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

465 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

715 ms

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About Website

Welcome to metalsupermarkets.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Metal Supermarkets best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about metalsupermarkets.co.uk

8 Locations in the UK. Aluminium, Steel, Stainless and More. No Minimum Orders and Cut to Your Exact Size! Pickup or Delivery Available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalsupermarkets.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 465 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metalsupermarkets.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,850 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalsupermarkets.co.uk

465 ms

www.metalsupermarkets.co.uk

643 ms

uc.js

26 ms

style.min.css

16 ms

algolia-autocomplete.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Metalsupermarkets.co.uk, 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (780 ms) belongs to the original domain Metalsupermarkets.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 568.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalsupermarkets.co.uk main page is 3.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 149.4 kB

  • Original 175.9 kB
  • After minification 168.1 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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 149.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 109.0 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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 Supermarkets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 309.7 kB

  • Original 552.9 kB
  • After minification 552.9 kB
  • After compression 243.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 309.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Metalsupermarkets.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (58%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Supermarkets. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalsupermarkets.co.uk

metalsupermarkets.co.uk

465 ms

www.metalsupermarkets.co.uk

www.metalsupermarkets.co.uk

643 ms

uc.js

uc.js

26 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

16 ms

algolia-autocomplete.css

algolia-autocomplete.css

59 ms

main.css

main.css

37 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

34 ms

formreset.min.css

formreset.min.css

32 ms

formsmain.min.css

formsmain.min.css

62 ms

readyclass.min.css

readyclass.min.css

68 ms

browsers.min.css

browsers.min.css

64 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

55 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

63 ms

wp-util.min.js

wp-util.min.js

62 ms

algoliasearch-lite.umd.js

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61 ms

autocomplete.min.js

autocomplete.min.js

63 ms

autocomplete-noconflict.js

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63 ms

main.js

main.js

63 ms

common.js

common.js

64 ms

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64 ms

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65 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

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64 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

66 ms

hooks.min.js

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66 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

67 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

66 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

66 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

72 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

77 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

73 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

73 ms

css2

css2

25 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

303 ms

flag-usa1.svg

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277 ms

MQqryATLqhY

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298 ms

flag-canada1.svg

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126 ms

header-banner.svg

header-banner.svg

127 ms

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Alloy-Steel-Metal-Supermarkets.jpg

126 ms

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150 ms

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126 ms

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135 ms

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148 ms

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164 ms

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181 ms

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144 ms

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142 ms

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179 ms

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179 ms

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179 ms

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178 ms

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197 ms

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198 ms

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triangle-arrow.gif

196 ms

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inspectlet.js

198 ms

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151 ms

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166 ms

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179 ms

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223 ms

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780 ms

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780 ms

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178 ms

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193 ms

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662 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

38 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

56 ms

base.js

base.js

90 ms

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307 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

147 ms

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101 ms

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31 ms

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16 ms

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16 ms

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19 ms

Create

Create

82 ms

Accessibility Review

metalsupermarkets.co.uk accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metalsupermarkets.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

metalsupermarkets.co.uk SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Metalsupermarkets.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 Metalsupermarkets.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

metalsupermarkets.co.uk

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