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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

vitagrid.com

Vital Engineering & Angus McLeod | Gratings, Fibreglass Gratings, Expanded Metal, Stairtreads, Handrails, Pressed Floors

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

906 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

485 ms

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About Website

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Vital Engineering manufactures various types of quality gratings, stairtreads, pressed floors, fibreglass gratings and safety handrails.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vitagrid.com page load time and found that the first response time was 906 ms and then it took 7.2 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

vitagrid.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vitagrid.com

906 ms

www.gratings.co.za

1584 ms

css

21 ms

bootstrap.min.css

330 ms

theme.css

661 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vitagrid.com, 84% (48 requests) were made to Gratings.co.za and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Gratings.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vitagrid.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 48.7 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 44.8 kB, which is 48% 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 83.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Vitagrid images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 227.1 kB
  • After minification 227.1 kB
  • After compression 222.2 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 53.1 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. Vitagrid.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (30%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vitagrid. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vitagrid.com

vitagrid.com

906 ms

www.gratings.co.za

www.gratings.co.za

1584 ms

css

css

21 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

330 ms

theme.css

theme.css

661 ms

revslider.css

revslider.css

958 ms

custom_yellow.css

custom_yellow.css

957 ms

js

js

65 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1280 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1613 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1046 ms

modules.js

modules.js

1049 ms

theme.js

theme.js

1276 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

1601 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

1649 ms

jquery.isotope.min.js

jquery.isotope.min.js

1374 ms

sorting.js

sorting.js

1600 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1601 ms

ga.js

ga.js

90 ms

logo_398px.png

logo_398px.png

794 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

948 ms

slide_general.jpg

slide_general.jpg

1579 ms

slide_fibreglass.jpg

slide_fibreglass.jpg

1902 ms

slide_maclock.jpg

slide_maclock.jpg

1281 ms

slide_vitex.jpg

slide_vitex.jpg

1932 ms

home-2.jpg

home-2.jpg

1373 ms

01s.jpg

01s.jpg

1268 ms

02s.jpg

02s.jpg

1590 ms

07s.jpg

07s.jpg

1608 ms

08s.jpg

08s.jpg

1699 ms

05s.jpg

05s.jpg

1902 ms

06s.jpg

06s.jpg

1914 ms

09s.jpg

09s.jpg

1934 ms

construction.jpg

construction.jpg

2026 ms

01.jpg

01.jpg

2545 ms

fibreglassgratings.jpg

fibreglassgratings.jpg

2226 ms

1_newsdefault.jpg

1_newsdefault.jpg

2870 ms

0_vitex.jpg

0_vitex.jpg

2579 ms

08.jpg

08.jpg

2260 ms

09.jpg

09.jpg

2354 ms

10.jpg

10.jpg

2549 ms

11.jpg

11.jpg

2584 ms

12.jpg

12.jpg

2682 ms

13.jpg

13.jpg

2866 ms

14.jpg

14.jpg

2802 ms

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25 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

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27 ms

fa.woff

fa.woff

2833 ms

15.jpg

15.jpg

2842 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

20 ms

16.jpg

16.jpg

2708 ms

17.jpg

17.jpg

2879 ms

autospec_1.png

autospec_1.png

2796 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

2408 ms

timer.png

timer.png

2444 ms

Accessibility Review

vitagrid.com accessibility score

60

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

vitagrid.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vitagrid.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Vitagrid.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 Vitagrid.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

vitagrid.com

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