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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

alcosales.com

ALCO Sales & Service Co. | Medical Equipment, Parts, Casters & Repair

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

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

ALCO Sales & Service Co. is a family owned business providing quality medical equipment, replacement parts & casters to the healthcare industry since 1952. We work with over 200+ vendors and distribut...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcosales.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.6 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

alcosales.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcosales.com

1369 ms

template.css

46 ms

alco.css

83 ms

bootstrap.css

84 ms

font-awesome.min.css

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Alcosales.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Alcosales.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 503.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcosales.com main page is 3.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 194.6 kB

  • Original 223.8 kB
  • After minification 175.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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 48.6 kB, which is 22% 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 194.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 98.9 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. ALCO Sales images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 198.8 kB

  • Original 455.1 kB
  • After minification 454.4 kB
  • After compression 256.4 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 198.8 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 36.6 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Alcosales.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (37%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALCO Sales. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alcosales.com

alcosales.com

1369 ms

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template.css

46 ms

alco.css

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83 ms

bootstrap.css

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79 ms

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32 ms

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100 ms

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79 ms

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29 ms

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250 ms

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156 ms

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ajax_builder__100_00_04.js

149 ms

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154 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

328 ms

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171 ms

layout.css

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172 ms

products.css

products.css

150 ms

cart.css

cart.css

156 ms

ddt.css

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172 ms

thickbox.css

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199 ms

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198 ms

gallery.css

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204 ms

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223 ms

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237 ms

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17 ms

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25 ms

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44 ms

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47 ms

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41 ms

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40 ms

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46 ms

nav.js

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80 ms

scripts.js

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151 ms

warning.svg

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208 ms

alco-logo.png

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71 ms

header-bkg-tile.gif

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38 ms

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185 ms

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187 ms

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Accessibility Review

alcosales.com accessibility score

43

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

alcosales.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

SEO Factors

alcosales.com SEO score

54

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alcosales.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Alcosales.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

alcosales.com

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