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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thefastco.com

Industrial Fasteners | Construction Fasteners | Houston, Texas

Page Load Speed

455 ms in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

303 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

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Serving contractors and manufacturers with fasteners including nuts, bolts, screws, and washers for industrial applications at Fastener Connection, Inc.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefastco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 411 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefastco.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefastco.com

44 ms

thefastco.com

65 ms

js

131 ms

css

36 ms

css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Thefastco.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (131 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

511.3 kB

After Optimization

477.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefastco.com main page is 511.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 441.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 17% 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 10.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 441.0 kB
  • After minification 423.5 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. Thefastco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 47.7 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Thefastco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (39%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thefastco. 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

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44 ms

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thefastco.com

65 ms

js

js

131 ms

css

css

36 ms

css

css

55 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

16 ms

main.css

main.css

24 ms

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

24 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

34 ms

main.js

main.js

29 ms

search-left.png

search-left.png

59 ms

search-bkgd.png

search-bkgd.png

26 ms

search-button.png

search-button.png

25 ms

bkgd-blue.png

bkgd-blue.png

25 ms

logo1.png

logo1.png

25 ms

logo2.png

logo2.png

21 ms

logo3.png

logo3.png

32 ms

logo4.png

logo4.png

40 ms

bkgd-lightblue.png

bkgd-lightblue.png

33 ms

terms.png

terms.png

37 ms

signup.png

signup.png

37 ms

minority-seal-2019-round.png

minority-seal-2019-round.png

37 ms

swfa-logo.jpg

swfa-logo.jpg

41 ms

minority-seal-2019-box.png

minority-seal-2019-box.png

51 ms

footer-logo.jpg

footer-logo.jpg

47 ms

bjm.png

bjm.png

47 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

47 ms

controls.png

controls.png

51 ms

border.png

border.png

48 ms

loading_background.png

loading_background.png

58 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

56 ms

rotateA1.jpg

rotateA1.jpg

61 ms

rotateA2.jpg

rotateA2.jpg

57 ms

rotateA3.jpg

rotateA3.jpg

62 ms

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Accessibility Review

thefastco.com accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

thefastco.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

thefastco.com SEO score

69

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 Thefastco.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 Thefastco.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

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