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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

toolsdirect.com

Power Equipment Direct - We Make Buying Technical Products Simple™

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

toolsdirect.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Toolsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

toolsdirect.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

toolsdirect.com

93 ms

www.toolsdirect.com

69 ms

c108417

418 ms

s_code-cb1671.js

7 ms

storestyle-cb1671.css

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Toolsdirect.com, 40% (40 requests) were made to Build.com and 14% (14 requests) were made to S2.img-b.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (503 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (63%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

657.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Toolsdirect.com main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 926.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 112.2 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 135.9 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 112.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 271.0 kB
  • After minification 233.6 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. Obviously, Tools Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 607.0 kB

  • Original 926.1 kB
  • After minification 920.1 kB
  • After compression 319.1 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 607.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 361.0 kB

  • Original 437.3 kB
  • After minification 435.2 kB
  • After compression 76.3 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. Toolsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 361.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (57%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tools Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

toolsdirect.com

toolsdirect.com

93 ms

www.toolsdirect.com

www.toolsdirect.com

69 ms

c108417

c108417

418 ms

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7 ms

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5 ms

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30 ms

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29 ms

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64 ms

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31 ms

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57 ms

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56 ms

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53 ms

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48 ms

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44 ms

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44 ms

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45 ms

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45 ms

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45 ms

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46 ms

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164 ms

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277 ms

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204 ms

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26 ms

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25 ms

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40 ms

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39 ms

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37 ms

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47 ms

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46 ms

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49 ms

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46 ms

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53 ms

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52 ms

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95 ms

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173 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

174 ms

id

id

128 ms

loader.js

loader.js

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sdk.js

sdk.js

503 ms

platform.js

platform.js

280 ms

collect

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85 ms

collect

collect

237 ms

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returnrecs

331 ms

br-trk-5141.js

br-trk-5141.js

83 ms

product_plp.js

product_plp.js

68 ms

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footer_sprite.png

166 ms

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52 ms

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119 ms

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33 ms

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76 ms

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52 ms

ga-audiences

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45 ms

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26 ms

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43 ms

fastbutton

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110 ms

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64 ms

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12 ms

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12 ms

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11 ms

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11 ms

Accessibility Review

toolsdirect.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

toolsdirect.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

toolsdirect.com SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Toolsdirect.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Toolsdirect.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

toolsdirect.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Tools Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: