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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

sahardwaretraders.com

SA Hardware Traders - Stainless Steel Hinges and Lever Handles

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sahardwaretraders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sahardwaretraders.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sahardwaretraders.com

1058 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

477 ms

style.css

547 ms

jquery.js

805 ms

saht.css

573 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Sahardwaretraders.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Sahardwaretraders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

698.0 kB

After Optimization

600.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sahardwaretraders.com main page is 698.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 567.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 25.5 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 3.7 kB, which is 13% 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 24.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 567.8 kB
  • After minification 557.9 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. SA Hardware Traders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 94.9 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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 60.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Sahardwaretraders.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (44%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Hardware Traders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sahardwaretraders.com

sahardwaretraders.com

1058 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

477 ms

style.css

style.css

547 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

805 ms

saht.css

saht.css

573 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

script.js

script.js

554 ms

BG.jpg

BG.jpg

256 ms

SA_Hardware_Traders_LOGO.gif

SA_Hardware_Traders_LOGO.gif

282 ms

telephone.png

telephone.png

251 ms

home-roll.gif

home-roll.gif

266 ms

about.gif

about.gif

266 ms

hardware.gif

hardware.gif

261 ms

custom.gif

custom.gif

497 ms

sourcing.gif

sourcing.gif

511 ms

prepacking.gif

prepacking.gif

507 ms

contact.gif

contact.gif

529 ms

hinges.jpg

hinges.jpg

1125 ms

levers.jpg

levers.jpg

1139 ms

prepacking.jpg

prepacking.jpg

1245 ms

customhardware.jpg

customhardware.jpg

1245 ms

specials.jpg

specials.jpg

769 ms

howick.jpg

howick.jpg

1046 ms

imported-ironomongery.jpg

imported-ironomongery.jpg

1031 ms

stainless-ironmongery.jpg

stainless-ironmongery.jpg

1294 ms

download.png

download.png

1336 ms

270-grey.gif

270-grey.gif

1404 ms

pre-packed-hardware.png

pre-packed-hardware.png

1677 ms

product-sourcing-imports.png

product-sourcing-imports.png

1738 ms

custom-made-hardware.png

custom-made-hardware.png

1500 ms

heading-bg-white.png

heading-bg-white.png

1565 ms

heading-bg.png

heading-bg.png

1579 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

1649 ms

footer-table-bg.gif

footer-table-bg.gif

1745 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

home.gif

home.gif

269 ms

about-roll.gif

about-roll.gif

258 ms

hardware-roll.gif

hardware-roll.gif

246 ms

custom-roll.gif

custom-roll.gif

266 ms

sourcing-roll.gif

sourcing-roll.gif

255 ms

prepacking-roll.gif

prepacking-roll.gif

251 ms

contact-roll.gif

contact-roll.gif

493 ms

home.gif

home.gif

495 ms

Accessibility Review

sahardwaretraders.com accessibility score

48

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.

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sahardwaretraders.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sahardwaretraders.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Sahardwaretraders.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 Sahardwaretraders.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

sahardwaretraders.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SA Hardware Traders. 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: