Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

buffersusa.com

Buffers USA: International supplier of intermodal hardware, desiccants, container and cargo security products for sea, road and rail transport.

Page Load Speed

874 ms in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

687 ms

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

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Buffers USA manufactures and sells over 6,500 intermodal hardware assemblies, components & cargo security products as well as desiccants to dealers across the United States, as well as overseas. Wheth...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buffersusa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 794 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buffersusa.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buffersusa.com

80 ms

buffersusa.com

127 ms

wt.php

24 ms

site_global.css

34 ms

index.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Buffersusa.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Webtraxs.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Webfonts.creativecloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (327 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

320.2 kB

After Optimization

220.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Buffersusa.com main page is 320.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 175.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 86.0 kB
  • After minification 73.5 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 12.4 kB, which is 14% 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 71.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 39.1 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. Buffers USA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 175.3 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 159.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. Buffersusa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buffers USA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

buffersusa.com accessibility score

73

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

[role] values are not valid

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

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

Best Practices

buffersusa.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

buffersusa.com SEO score

58

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buffersusa.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 Buffersusa.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 data is detected on the main page of Buffers USA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: