Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

nationalwelding.com.au

National Welding and Industrial Supplies - Welder Repair and Sales.

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to nationalwelding.com.au homepage info - get ready to check National Welding best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about nationalwelding.com.au

National Welding Supplies is a leading welding equipment supplier in Australia. We offer high quality industrial tools and welding equipment that will suit all your welding requirements.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalwelding.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 10.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalwelding.com.au performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,300 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.603

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nationalwelding.com.au

1407 ms

app.css

41 ms

style.css

54 ms

bl.css

56 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalwelding.com.au, 6% (8 requests) were made to Assets.netostatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationalwelding.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Nationalwelding.com.au main page is 6.9 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. Images take 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 364.8 kB

  • Original 421.1 kB
  • After minification 420.7 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 364.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. National Welding images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 405.2 kB
  • After minification 405.1 kB
  • After compression 372.8 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 21 B

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Nationalwelding.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (16%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

107

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Welding. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalwelding.com.au accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Best Practices

nationalwelding.com.au best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nationalwelding.com.au SEO score

77

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

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 doesn't use 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 Nationalwelding.com.au 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 Nationalwelding.com.au 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 description is not detected on the main page of National Welding. 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: