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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

northwesterntools.com

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Page Load Speed

842 ms in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

535 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwesterntools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 206 ms and then it took 636 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northwesterntools.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northwesterntools.com

206 ms

js

82 ms

style.css

101 ms

import.css

103 ms

openwindow.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Northwesterntools.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (206 ms) belongs to the original domain Northwesterntools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

476.9 kB

After Optimization

318.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northwesterntools.com main page is 476.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 257.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 18.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 257.4 kB
  • After minification 242.6 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. Northwestern Tools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 90.0 kB

  • Original 153.1 kB
  • After minification 142.6 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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 90.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Northwesterntools.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (37%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northwestern Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northwesterntools.com

northwesterntools.com

206 ms

js

js

82 ms

style.css

style.css

101 ms

import.css

import.css

103 ms

openwindow.js

openwindow.js

97 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

97 ms

dynamic_mopics.css

dynamic_mopics.css

97 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

42 ms

redirect.js

redirect.js

133 ms

element.js

element.js

65 ms

ps_slidercontrol.js

ps_slidercontrol.js

129 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

85 ms

ps.css

ps.css

56 ms

background.gif

background.gif

20 ms

top-nav.gif

top-nav.gif

18 ms

top-nav-icons.gif

top-nav-icons.gif

17 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

43 ms

nav.gif

nav.gif

19 ms

home.gif

home.gif

18 ms

about_us.gif

about_us.gif

33 ms

where_to_buy.gif

where_to_buy.gif

32 ms

request_a_quote.gif

request_a_quote.gif

33 ms

request_a_catalog.gif

request_a_catalog.gif

33 ms

contact_us.gif

contact_us.gif

34 ms

body.gif

body.gif

46 ms

container.gif

container.gif

47 ms

knobsandhandlescover.jpg

knobsandhandlescover.jpg

61 ms

search.gif

search.gif

49 ms

springandballplungers.jpg

springandballplungers.jpg

49 ms

clampingsetup.jpg

clampingsetup.jpg

57 ms

stainlesscomponents.jpg

stainlesscomponents.jpg

73 ms

washers.jpg

washers.jpg

62 ms

knobs.jpg

knobs.jpg

63 ms

threadinserts.jpg

threadinserts.jpg

76 ms

fixturing.jpg

fixturing.jpg

72 ms

toolingblocks.jpg

toolingblocks.jpg

77 ms

grippers.jpg

grippers.jpg

79 ms

toggleclamps.jpg

toggleclamps.jpg

77 ms

hoistrings.jpg

hoistrings.jpg

86 ms

catalog.gif

catalog.gif

87 ms

adobe.gif

adobe.gif

92 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

92 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

93 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

107 ms

ps_background.gif

ps_background.gif

99 ms

ps_arrowleft.gif

ps_arrowleft.gif

99 ms

ps_track.gif

ps_track.gif

106 ms

ps_dragbar.gif

ps_dragbar.gif

105 ms

ps_dragbar_left.gif

ps_dragbar_left.gif

104 ms

ps_dragbar_right.gif

ps_dragbar_right.gif

103 ms

ps_arrowright.gif

ps_arrowright.gif

101 ms

Accessibility Review

northwesterntools.com accessibility score

81

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northwesterntools.com 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

SEO Factors

northwesterntools.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Northwesterntools.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 Northwesterntools.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

northwesterntools.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Northwestern Tools. 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: