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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

methodtools.com

Wholesale Tooling Suppliers in Stockport, Manchester & Cheshire - UK

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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About Website

Welcome to methodtools.com homepage info - get ready to check Methodtools best content right away, or after learning these important things about methodtools.com

Founded in 1974, we are one of the UK’s leading wholesale tooling suppliers working with companies in Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire & across the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Methodtools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

methodtools.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

methodtools.com

302 ms

www.methodtools.com

361 ms

style-admin.css

172 ms

css

18 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Methodtools.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Methodtools.wpengine.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (759 ms) belongs to the original domain Methodtools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

942.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Methodtools.com main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 467.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 101.5 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. 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 82.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 467.0 kB
  • After minification 439.5 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. Methodtools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 327.2 kB
  • After minification 327.2 kB
  • After compression 314.7 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 178.2 kB
  • After minification 178.1 kB
  • After compression 168.7 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. Methodtools.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (76%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Methodtools. 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 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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methodtools.com

302 ms

www.methodtools.com

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361 ms

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90 ms

Accessibility Review

methodtools.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

methodtools.com 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

SEO Factors

methodtools.com SEO score

90

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 Methodtools.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 Methodtools.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

methodtools.com

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