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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

rmforge.com

Custom Metal Forging Company - Forging Manufacturer Houston | R&M Forge and Fittings

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

Visit rmforge.com now to see the best up-to-date R M Forge content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rmforge.com

Since 1983, R&M Forge & Fittings has provided the highest quality custom forgings, flanges and fittings for a wide range of industries. Contact us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rmforge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rmforge.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rmforge.com

91 ms

rmforge.com

137 ms

www.rmforge.com

176 ms

font-awesome.min.css

25 ms

style.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Rmforge.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googleoptimize.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Rmforge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

459.7 kB

After Optimization

327.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rmforge.com main page is 459.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 279.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. 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 13.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 279.5 kB
  • After minification 279.3 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. R M Forge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 111.6 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 89.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 26.0 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. Rmforge.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (29%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of R M Forge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rmforge.com

rmforge.com

91 ms

rmforge.com

rmforge.com

137 ms

www.rmforge.com

www.rmforge.com

176 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

25 ms

style.css

style.css

67 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

194 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

104 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

54 ms

rm.css

rm.css

100 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

103 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

136 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

111 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

39 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

38 ms

primaryNav-hover-bg.jpg

primaryNav-hover-bg.jpg

40 ms

bg-search.png

bg-search.png

41 ms

hero-bg.png

hero-bg.png

39 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

141 ms

hero-banner-1.jpg

hero-banner-1.jpg

105 ms

hero-banner-2.jpg

hero-banner-2.jpg

168 ms

hero-banner-3.jpg

hero-banner-3.jpg

108 ms

rfqBtn.png

rfqBtn.png

81 ms

homeBucket-forgings.jpg

homeBucket-forgings.jpg

80 ms

homeBucket-flanges.jpg

homeBucket-flanges.jpg

114 ms

carbon-steel-pipe-fittings.jpg

carbon-steel-pipe-fittings.jpg

111 ms

homeBucket-bars-alt.jpg

homeBucket-bars-alt.jpg

139 ms

footer-bg.gif

footer-bg.gif

142 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

146 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

201 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

14 ms

www.rmforge.com

www.rmforge.com

1063 ms

Accessibility Review

rmforge.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

rmforge.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rmforge.com SEO score

84

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rmforge.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 Rmforge.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

rmforge.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of R M Forge. 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: