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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

alro.com

Premium Metals & Plastics Distributor | Next-Day Delivery

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Alro content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about alro.com

Your one-stop-shop for premium metals and plastics, offering a vast inventory of in-stock products and processing service options with next day delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alro.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alro.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alro.com

31 ms

alro.com

191 ms

www.alro.com

280 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

gtm.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Alro.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) belongs to the original domain Alro.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alro.com main page is 1.8 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 10.7 kB, which is 18% 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 48.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 53.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Alro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 233.1 kB
  • After minification 233.1 kB
  • After compression 147.8 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 85.4 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 698 B

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Alro.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 698 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alro.com

alro.com

31 ms

alro.com

alro.com

191 ms

www.alro.com

www.alro.com

280 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

86 ms

AlroCSS.css

AlroCSS.css

48 ms

75yr-Standard.jpg

75yr-Standard.jpg

41 ms

Icon_sm_Facebook.png

Icon_sm_Facebook.png

293 ms

Icon_sm_LinkedIn.png

Icon_sm_LinkedIn.png

24 ms

icon_sm_Twitter.png

icon_sm_Twitter.png

29 ms

icon_sm_Instagram.png

icon_sm_Instagram.png

38 ms

icon_sm_YouTube.png

icon_sm_YouTube.png

56 ms

icon_sm_Pinterest.png

icon_sm_Pinterest.png

57 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

299 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

301 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

300 ms

jquery-1.2.6.min.js

jquery-1.2.6.min.js

300 ms

jssor.js

jssor.js

299 ms

jssor.slider.js

jssor.slider.js

335 ms

top-0_30.png

top-0_30.png

300 ms

Box-HOME-Store.jpg

Box-HOME-Store.jpg

395 ms

Box-HOME-Metal-Prod.jpg

Box-HOME-Metal-Prod.jpg

401 ms

Box-HOME-Processing.jpg

Box-HOME-Processing.jpg

406 ms

Box-HOME-Locations.jpg

Box-HOME-Locations.jpg

396 ms

Bnr-Online-Store.jpg

Bnr-Online-Store.jpg

488 ms

Metals-Guide-23b.jpg

Metals-Guide-23b.jpg

501 ms

Bnr-Alro-Careers.jpg

Bnr-Alro-Careers.jpg

607 ms

Bnr-75-Years.jpg

Bnr-75-Years.jpg

610 ms

Bnr-UofM-Mott.jpg

Bnr-UofM-Mott.jpg

616 ms

js

js

72 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

37 ms

stat.js

stat.js

68 ms

215604

215604

161 ms

bounce

bounce

53 ms

Main-Pic-03.jpg

Main-Pic-03.jpg

262 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

332 ms

b03.png

b03.png

345 ms

a12.png

a12.png

411 ms

Accessibility Review

alro.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alro.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

alro.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alro.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 Alro.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alro.com

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