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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

plumbing.com

Plumbing Supplies, HVAC Parts, Pipe, Valves & Fittings – Ferguson

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

plumbing.com screenshot

About Website

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

Ferguson sells quality plumbing supplies, HVAC products, and building supplies to professional contractors and homeowners.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plumbing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plumbing.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plumbing.com

166 ms

www.ferguson.com

726 ms

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45 ms

api_dynamic.js

98 ms

api_static.js

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 223 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Plumbing.com, 80% (179 requests) were made to I.ferg-img.com and 9% (21 requests) were made to Ferguson.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (726 ms) relates to the external source Ferguson.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plumbing.com main page is 3.7 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 280.3 kB

  • Original 325.9 kB
  • After minification 325.4 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 280.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Plumbing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 748.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 567.9 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 748.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 102.6 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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. Plumbing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (15%)

Requests Now

220

After Optimization

187

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 220 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plumbing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

plumbing.com accessibility score

88

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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

plumbing.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

plumbing.com SEO score

85

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 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 Plumbing.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 Plumbing.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

plumbing.com

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