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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

mscdirect.co.uk

MSC Industrial Supply Co. - Metalworking, Safety and MRO Supplies | MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

619 ms

mscdirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing MSC Direct content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mscdirect.co.uk

MSC Industrial Supply is the UK's top source for cutting tools, safety and MRO supplies. Free next day shipping over £25 & expert engineering support. Built To Make You Better™.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mscdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 60 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

mscdirect.co.uk performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,010 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.005

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mscdirect.co.uk

60 ms

exj4flb.css

59 ms

e29a485637adf5e4f9746035a558c597.min.js

561 ms

polyfill.min.js

392 ms

msc-direct-hero-site-banner-1.png

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Mscdirect.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (926 ms) belongs to the original domain Mscdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mscdirect.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 296.7 kB

  • Original 367.4 kB
  • After minification 365.6 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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 296.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. MSC Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 565 B

  • Original 514.3 kB
  • After minification 514.2 kB
  • After compression 513.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 406 B

  • Original 226.6 kB
  • After minification 226.6 kB
  • After compression 226.2 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. Mscdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (77%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MSC Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mscdirect.co.uk

www.mscdirect.co.uk

60 ms

exj4flb.css

exj4flb.css

59 ms

e29a485637adf5e4f9746035a558c597.min.js

e29a485637adf5e4f9746035a558c597.min.js

561 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

392 ms

msc-direct-hero-site-banner-1.png

msc-direct-hero-site-banner-1.png

27 ms

msc-direct-hero-site-banner-2.png

msc-direct-hero-site-banner-2.png

30 ms

ADVJUJ24_Mini_Angle_Die_Grinder.png

ADVJUJ24_Mini_Angle_Die_Grinder.png

101 ms

ADVJUJ24_Spiral_Flute_Machine_Taps.png

ADVJUJ24_Spiral_Flute_Machine_Taps.png

100 ms

Adv_banner_2_.png

Adv_banner_2_.png

28 ms

msc-direct-testimonial-1.png

msc-direct-testimonial-1.png

33 ms

msc-footer-logo.png

msc-footer-logo.png

32 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

33 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

35 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

34 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

35 ms

klaviyo.js

klaviyo.js

288 ms

p.css

p.css

35 ms

d

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47 ms

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22 ms

d

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39 ms

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29 ms

hotjar-3862492.js

hotjar-3862492.js

544 ms

bat.js

bat.js

48 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

87 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

43 ms

tp.min.js

tp.min.js

42 ms

ec.min.css

ec.min.css

114 ms

fender_analytics.113876fdc67592e7cbfd.js

fender_analytics.113876fdc67592e7cbfd.js

44 ms

static.047f24ade89e4aff54a9.js

static.047f24ade89e4aff54a9.js

45 ms

runtime.28157fad3172f2294b64.js

runtime.28157fad3172f2294b64.js

8 ms

sharedUtils.262b9d5b04521b0abe69.js

sharedUtils.262b9d5b04521b0abe69.js

36 ms

5025306.js

5025306.js

21 ms

5025306

5025306

141 ms

js

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70 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

340 ms

destination

destination

166 ms

165691.js

165691.js

323 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

198 ms

orig_06eed08c3fa62465e4e1b3941384889c.min.css

orig_06eed08c3fa62465e4e1b3941384889c.min.css

236 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

170 ms

161 ms

basket.svg

basket.svg

90 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

109 ms

Luma-Icons.woff

Luma-Icons.woff

85 ms

Luma-Icons.woff

Luma-Icons.woff

926 ms

modules.d7e8b7276297041c77dc.js

modules.d7e8b7276297041c77dc.js

18 ms

36 ms

styles-l.min.css

styles-l.min.css

119 ms

search-white.svg

search-white.svg

80 ms

c.gif

c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

mscdirect.co.uk accessibility score

80

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

mscdirect.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mscdirect.co.uk SEO score

89

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 Mscdirect.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 Mscdirect.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

mscdirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MSC Direct. 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: