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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

rapierstar.com

Rapierstar - More than superior fasteners and fixings

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

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For over twenty five years, Rapierstar has led the market in the design development and supply of technically advanced fixings and building maintenance solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rapierstar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rapierstar.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rapierstar.com

202 ms

rapierstar.com

675 ms

gtm.js

84 ms

css

43 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Rapierstar.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (717 ms) belongs to the original domain Rapierstar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rapierstar.com main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 75.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Rapierstar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 112.6 kB
  • After minification 112.6 kB
  • After compression 110.3 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

-33%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Rapierstar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (54%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rapierstar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rapierstar.com

rapierstar.com

202 ms

rapierstar.com

rapierstar.com

675 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

css

css

43 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

css

css

59 ms

template.css

template.css

111 ms

custom.css

custom.css

175 ms

cookie.css

cookie.css

259 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

260 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

352 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

266 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

266 ms

caption.js

caption.js

260 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

346 ms

core.js

core.js

348 ms

media.match.min.js

media.match.min.js

348 ms

enquire.js

enquire.js

365 ms

custom.js

custom.js

366 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

432 ms

cookie_script.js

cookie_script.js

435 ms

221953.js

221953.js

110 ms

js

js

142 ms

loader.js

loader.js

136 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

93 ms

342054535

342054535

260 ms

rapierstar_header_bg.png

rapierstar_header_bg.png

273 ms

rapierstar_logo_30.png

rapierstar_logo_30.png

277 ms

home_bg.jpg

home_bg.jpg

358 ms

header-shadow.png

header-shadow.png

105 ms

mobile-menu-tab-side.png

mobile-menu-tab-side.png

105 ms

button-distributors.jpg

button-distributors.jpg

276 ms

button-drillpoints.jpg

button-drillpoints.jpg

283 ms

button-manufacturer.jpg

button-manufacturer.jpg

286 ms

button-installers-02.jpg

button-installers-02.jpg

358 ms

footer-twitter.png

footer-twitter.png

362 ms

footer-linkedin.png

footer-linkedin.png

361 ms

14001_RGB_Purple.jpg

14001_RGB_Purple.jpg

625 ms

9001_RGB_Purple.jpg

9001_RGB_Purple.jpg

717 ms

EU_Logo_-_White_170px.png

EU_Logo_-_White_170px.png

443 ms

accr-biafd.png

accr-biafd.png

444 ms

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhLsWkANDM.ttf

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhLsWkANDM.ttf

37 ms

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhh8KkANDM.ttf

jizOREVItHgc8qDIbSTKq4XkRg8T88bjFuXOnduhh8KkANDM.ttf

46 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

api.js

api.js

11 ms

Accessibility Review

rapierstar.com accessibility score

79

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

rapierstar.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rapierstar.com SEO score

88

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rapierstar.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Rapierstar.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

rapierstar.com

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