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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

steelmarketupdate.com

Home - Steel Market Update

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

412 ms

steelmarketupdate.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Steel Market Update content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about steelmarketupdate.com

Where The Steel Community Comes Together Keeping a finger on the pulse of the flat-rolled steel market with the latest steel news, prices, and industry

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Key Findings

We analyzed Steelmarketupdate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

steelmarketupdate.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

steelmarketupdate.com

128 ms

www.steelmarketupdate.com

3871 ms

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82 ms

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99 ms

mootools-core.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Steelmarketupdate.com, 45% (40 requests) were made to Cdn.steelmarketupdate.com and 42% (37 requests) were made to Img.steelmarketupdate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Steelmarketupdate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (28%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Steelmarketupdate.com main page is 3.7 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 139.9 kB

  • Original 163.1 kB
  • After minification 151.6 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 139.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 231.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Steel Market Update images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 642.6 kB

  • Original 913.0 kB
  • After minification 882.5 kB
  • After compression 270.4 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 642.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Steelmarketupdate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (48%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steel Market Update. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

steelmarketupdate.com

steelmarketupdate.com

128 ms

www.steelmarketupdate.com

www.steelmarketupdate.com

3871 ms

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82 ms

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99 ms

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101 ms

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120 ms

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121 ms

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188 ms

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Accessibility Review

steelmarketupdate.com accessibility score

69

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

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

steelmarketupdate.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

steelmarketupdate.com SEO score

82

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

steelmarketupdate.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Steel Market Update. 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: