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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

strandhardware.com

Architectural Ironmongery and Security products - Strand Hardware

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

782 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

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About Website

Welcome to strandhardware.com homepage info - get ready to check Strand Hardware best content right away, or after learning these important things about strandhardware.com

Architectural Ironmongery and Security products. Door Seals, Panic Hardware, Finger Protectors, Duoflex and other window and door fittings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Strandhardware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 782 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

strandhardware.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.331

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.strandhardware.co.uk

782 ms

awesomplete.css

107 ms

core.min.js

226 ms

awesomplete.min.js

296 ms

finder.min.js

297 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Strandhardware.com, 31% (21 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Strandhardware.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 716.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Strandhardware.com main page is 2.1 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 58.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Strand Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 478.6 kB

  • Original 641.2 kB
  • After minification 580.2 kB
  • After compression 162.7 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 478.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 177.3 kB

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 204.4 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Strandhardware.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (66%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Strand Hardware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.strandhardware.co.uk

www.strandhardware.co.uk

782 ms

awesomplete.css

awesomplete.css

107 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

226 ms

awesomplete.min.js

awesomplete.min.js

296 ms

finder.min.js

finder.min.js

297 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

603 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

306 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

314 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

411 ms

sgo.js

sgo.js

396 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

562 ms

slick.js

slick.js

692 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

524 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

755 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

516 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

621 ms

slick.css

slick.css

628 ms

style.css

style.css

709 ms

menu.css

menu.css

713 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

733 ms

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css2

40 ms

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css2

65 ms

css2

css2

71 ms

css2

css2

67 ms

js

js

67 ms

smartslider.min.css

smartslider.min.css

760 ms

css

css

67 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

941 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

1069 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

864 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

864 ms

w-bullet.min.js

w-bullet.min.js

867 ms

logo.png

logo.png

136 ms

SHL-30th-Web-Banner.png

SHL-30th-Web-Banner.png

387 ms

banner-d-fine.jpg

banner-d-fine.jpg

409 ms

banner-duoflex.jpg

banner-duoflex.jpg

526 ms

finger-protector.jpg

finger-protector.jpg

572 ms

banner-glass-central.jpg

banner-glass-central.jpg

391 ms

window-and-door-hardware.jpg

window-and-door-hardware.jpg

405 ms

emergency-exit-panic-hardware.jpg

emergency-exit-panic-hardware.jpg

497 ms

window-control-systems.jpg

window-control-systems.jpg

506 ms

glass-central.jpg

glass-central.jpg

515 ms

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521 ms

strand-tech.jpg

strand-tech.jpg

638 ms

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Accessibility Review

strandhardware.com accessibility score

87

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

strandhardware.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

strandhardware.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 Strandhardware.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 Strandhardware.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

strandhardware.com

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