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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

northernhardware.com

Hardware Distributor Calgary | Finishing Hardware Edmonton

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

342 ms

Resources Loaded

877 ms

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Northern Hardware content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northernhardware.com

Northern Hardware Ltd. is a wholesale hardware distributor in Calgary and Edmonton, AB. We offer more than just finishing hardware supplies. Contact us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernhardware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 342 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northernhardware.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northernhardware.com

342 ms

react.production.min.js

53 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

69 ms

fat_core.EN.js

82 ms

env.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northernhardware.com, 38% (14 requests) were made to Img-to.nccdn.net and 30% (11 requests) were made to 0901.nccdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (395 ms) relates to the external source 0901.nccdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 221.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

837.6 kB

After Optimization

616.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northernhardware.com main page is 837.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 489.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 160.0 kB

  • Original 184.3 kB
  • After minification 183.5 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 160.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 489.2 kB
  • After minification 489.2 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. Northern Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 154.4 kB
  • After minification 129.9 kB
  • After compression 93.0 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 61.4 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 9.8 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. Northernhardware.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (54%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Hardware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northernhardware.com

northernhardware.com

342 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

53 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

69 ms

fat_core.EN.js

fat_core.EN.js

82 ms

env.js

env.js

90 ms

fat_eua.EN.js

fat_eua.EN.js

116 ms

fat_freemona.css

fat_freemona.css

108 ms

css2

css2

51 ms

fat_display.js

fat_display.js

86 ms

header.transpiled.js

header.transpiled.js

91 ms

fat_freemona.js

fat_freemona.js

112 ms

fat_display.EN.js

fat_display.EN.js

112 ms

display.m.EN.js

display.m.EN.js

97 ms

fat_display.js

fat_display.js

90 ms

fat_display.EN.js

fat_display.EN.js

113 ms

fat_display.js

fat_display.js

108 ms

fat_styles.css

fat_styles.css

120 ms

count.js

count.js

257 ms

logo1.jpg

logo1.jpg

64 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

32 ms

banner1-2560x1167.jpg

banner1-2560x1167.jpg

395 ms

img2.jpg

img2.jpg

105 ms

img2.jpg

img2.jpg

117 ms

img3.jpg

img3.jpg

168 ms

img4.jpg

img4.jpg

104 ms

img5.jpg

img5.jpg

111 ms

img6.jpg

img6.jpg

168 ms

p1.jpg

p1.jpg

169 ms

alpha-white-5.png

alpha-white-5.png

53 ms

para.jpg

para.jpg

117 ms

back.jpg

back.jpg

116 ms

section-arrow-collapsed-dark.png

section-arrow-collapsed-dark.png

114 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

91 ms

font

font

24 ms

font

font

33 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

87 ms

count.js

count.js

59 ms

Accessibility Review

northernhardware.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

northernhardware.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

northernhardware.com SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Northernhardware.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 Northernhardware.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

northernhardware.com

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