Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

rackexpress.com

Pallet Racks - Material Handling Equipment - Rack Express

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

305 ms

rackexpress.com screenshot

About Website

Visit rackexpress.com now to see the best up-to-date Rack Express content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rackexpress.com

Specializing in pallet racks, industrial shelving, and material handling equipment, we are the largest provider of warehouse equipment in the U.S..

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rackexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rackexpress.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rackexpress.com

65 ms

rackexpress.com

1414 ms

css

31 ms

layerslider.css

47 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Rackexpress.com, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Rackexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Rackexpress.com main page is 2.2 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 154.8 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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 127.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Rack Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 485.7 kB
  • After minification 483.8 kB
  • After compression 481.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 247.7 kB
  • After minification 247.7 kB
  • After compression 245.4 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. Rackexpress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (77%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rack Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 74 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rackexpress.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

rackexpress.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rackexpress.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Rackexpress.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 Rackexpress.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

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