Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com

Houston Scrap Metal Recycling - Gulf Coast Scrap Metal, Houston, Texas

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com screenshot

About Website

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Gulf Coast Scrap Metal - scrap metal recycling facility located at 8770 Hempstead Road at W. 11th. Best prices in Houston for your scrap, 713-868-4111.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulfcoastscrapmetal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com

200 ms

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com

253 ms

www.gulfcoastscrapmetal.com

375 ms

bootstrap.css

290 ms

style.css

235 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Gulfcoastscrapmetal.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (510 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 469.3 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gulfcoastscrapmetal.com main page is 1.7 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. Images take 771.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 32.6 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 27.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 771.8 kB
  • After minification 767.2 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. Gulf Coast Scrap Metal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 211.8 kB

  • Original 527.8 kB
  • After minification 487.7 kB
  • After compression 316.0 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 211.8 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 225.7 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 266.3 kB
  • After compression 89.5 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. Gulfcoastscrapmetal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 225.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (71%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf Coast Scrap Metal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com accessibility score

45

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gulfcoastscrapmetal.com SEO score

92

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

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 Gulfcoastscrapmetal.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 Gulfcoastscrapmetal.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 Gulf Coast Scrap Metal. 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: