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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

towerfast.com

Industrial Fasteners Distributor & Supplier | Tower Fasteners

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

Welcome to towerfast.com homepage info - get ready to check Tower Fast best content right away, or after learning these important things about towerfast.com

Tower Fasteners is a fastener distributor with nine fastener distribution centers in the United States, Mexico, and Ireland. Tower supplies industrial fasteners to manufacturers in the Aerospace, Mili...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Towerfast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

towerfast.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

towerfast.com

212 ms

towerfast.com

601 ms

style.css

90 ms

grid.css

64 ms

meanmenu.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Towerfast.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (601 ms) belongs to the original domain Towerfast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

150.4 kB

After Optimization

115.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Towerfast.com main page is 150.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 70.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 kB, which is 23% 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 26.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 69.1 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. Tower Fast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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

-44%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Towerfast.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tower Fast. 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

towerfast.com

towerfast.com

212 ms

towerfast.com

towerfast.com

601 ms

style.css

style.css

90 ms

grid.css

grid.css

64 ms

meanmenu.css

meanmenu.css

62 ms

skin.css

skin.css

69 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

5 ms

jquery.meanmenu.js

jquery.meanmenu.js

62 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

158 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

84 ms

ga.js

ga.js

121 ms

header-background-stripe.jpg

header-background-stripe.jpg

121 ms

logo.png

logo.png

151 ms

press-room-button.png

press-room-button.png

92 ms

customer-support-btn.png

customer-support-btn.png

92 ms

distribution-btn.png

distribution-btn.png

92 ms

flag-eng.png

flag-eng.png

153 ms

flag-esp.png

flag-esp.png

156 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

109 ms

view-all-btn.png

view-all-btn.png

114 ms

home-large.jpg

home-large.jpg

133 ms

learn-more-btn.png

learn-more-btn.png

124 ms

sidebar-1.jpg

sidebar-1.jpg

197 ms

sidebar-2.jpg

sidebar-2.jpg

146 ms

more-news-btn.png

more-news-btn.png

165 ms

social_facebook.gif

social_facebook.gif

165 ms

social_twitter.gif

social_twitter.gif

173 ms

social_linkedin.gif

social_linkedin.gif

174 ms

iso-9001-2019.png

iso-9001-2019.png

259 ms

2C1BA5_0_0.woff

2C1BA5_0_0.woff

329 ms

2C1BA5_2_0.woff

2C1BA5_2_0.woff

303 ms

2C1BA5_3_0.woff

2C1BA5_3_0.woff

264 ms

2C1BA5_1_0.woff

2C1BA5_1_0.woff

256 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

126 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

towerfast.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

towerfast.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

towerfast.com SEO score

94

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Towerfast.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 Towerfast.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 data is detected on the main page of Tower Fast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: