Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

shredstation.com

Paper Shredding & Confidential Waste Disposal - Shred Station®

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

936 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shredstation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 936 ms and then it took 2.7 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

shredstation.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shredstation.co.uk

936 ms

conversion_async.js

95 ms

A.style.min.css.pagespeed.cf.06cr-bNM9Y.css

163 ms

A.styles.css.pagespeed.cf.bkX63Rfd0q.css

239 ms

A.simplelightbox.min.css.pagespeed.cf.owSIKLPS-v.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Shredstation.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (936 ms) relates to the external source Shredstation.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

623.2 kB

After Optimization

545.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Shredstation.com main page is 623.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 273.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 92.7 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 73.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 273.1 kB
  • After minification 270.8 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. Shred Station images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 200.7 kB
  • After minification 200.7 kB
  • After compression 198.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 289 B

  • Original 53.2 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Shredstation.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (70%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shred Station. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shredstation.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

shredstation.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shredstation.com SEO score

91

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Shredstation.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 Shredstation.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 Shred Station. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: