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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

weldersupply.com

Welding equipment: Shop welders, cutters, helmets, PPE & more online | Welder Supply

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

weldersupply.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to weldersupply.com homepage info - get ready to check Welders Upply best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about weldersupply.com

Buy welding supplies online from plasma cutters to auto darkening welding helmets. Orders over $300 ship fast & free to the contiguous US. Call 1-844-682-0205

Visit weldersupply.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Weldersupply.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 7.7 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

weldersupply.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weldersupply.com

81 ms

www.weldersupply.com

306 ms

main.css

47 ms

main-ecomm.css

105 ms

category.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 198 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (197 requests) were addressed to the original Weldersupply.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Weldersupply.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weldersupply.com main page is 7.5 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 135.2 kB

  • Original 170.6 kB
  • After minification 170.3 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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 135.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Obviously, Welders Upply needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.4 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 524 B

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. Weldersupply.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (8%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

172

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welders Upply. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weldersupply.com

weldersupply.com

81 ms

www.weldersupply.com

www.weldersupply.com

306 ms

main.css

main.css

47 ms

main-ecomm.css

main-ecomm.css

105 ms

category.css

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130 ms

slick.css

slick.css

160 ms

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72 ms

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130 ms

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112 ms

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108 ms

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130 ms

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131 ms

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1170 ms

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1212 ms

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1168 ms

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907 ms

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923 ms

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Accessibility Review

weldersupply.com accessibility score

78

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

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

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

[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

Best Practices

weldersupply.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

weldersupply.com SEO score

91

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

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 Weldersupply.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 Weldersupply.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

weldersupply.com

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