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catalogs.praxairdirect.com

Home | Praxair Distribution, Inc. | Industrial Medical Specialty Gases

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

787 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

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About Website

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Praxair Distribution, Inc. operates 300+ welding supply stores in the USA offering welding gases, welding equipment and welding consumables.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catalogs.praxairdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 787 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catalogs.praxairdirect.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.praxairdirect.com

787 ms

dojo.js

403 ms

claro.css

33 ms

common1_1.css

305 ms

grid.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Catalogs.praxairdirect.com, 17% (16 requests) were made to Pdiimages.praxair.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (787 ms) relates to the external source Praxairdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

954.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Catalogs.praxairdirect.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 879.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 58.7 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 60.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 10.3 kB, which is 15% 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 58.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 163.6 kB

  • Original 874.3 kB
  • After minification 710.8 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. Obviously, Catalogs Praxair Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 163.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 688.2 kB

  • Original 879.4 kB
  • After minification 694.4 kB
  • After compression 191.3 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 688.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 273.8 kB

  • Original 313.9 kB
  • After minification 238.6 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Catalogs.praxairdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 273.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (46%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catalogs Praxair Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

catalogs.praxairdirect.com SEO score

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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 Catalogs.praxairdirect.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 Catalogs.praxairdirect.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 Catalogs Praxair Direct. 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: