Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 54

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

walltools.com

Drywall Tools Store | Worldwide Drywall Tool Supplier | Wall Tools

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Walltools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

walltools.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.234

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.walltools.com

165 ms

quickorder.css

24 ms

styles.css

69 ms

widgets.css

55 ms

myaccount.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 284 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (238 requests) were addressed to the original Walltools.com, 4% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (372 ms) belongs to the original domain Walltools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (49%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Walltools.com main page is 3.0 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 222.5 kB

  • Original 250.7 kB
  • After minification 179.4 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 71.3 kB, which is 28% 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 222.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 127.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 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. Wall Tools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 739.2 kB

  • Original 967.4 kB
  • After minification 806.2 kB
  • After compression 228.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 739.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 385.5 kB

  • Original 455.3 kB
  • After minification 375.2 kB
  • After compression 69.8 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. Walltools.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 385.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (29%)

Requests Now

273

After Optimization

193

The browser has sent 273 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wall Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

walltools.com accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

walltools.com best practices score

54

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Uses deprecated APIs

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

walltools.com SEO score

82

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

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

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 Walltools.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 Walltools.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

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