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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

centralsalt.com

Web Server's Default Page

Page Load Speed

709 ms in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

505 ms

Page Rendered

112 ms

centralsalt.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsalt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 617 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

centralsalt.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centralsalt.com

92 ms

normalize.css

82 ms

header.css

82 ms

style.css

113 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Centralsalt.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (277 ms) belongs to the original domain Centralsalt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 125.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsalt.com main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 2.8 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 12.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Centralsalt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 119.9 kB
  • After minification 118.7 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 67.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Centralsalt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Centralsalt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centralsalt.com

centralsalt.com

92 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

82 ms

header.css

header.css

82 ms

style.css

style.css

113 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

152 ms

jquery.responsive-fixes.js

jquery.responsive-fixes.js

87 ms

bjqs-1.3.min.js

bjqs-1.3.min.js

86 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

64 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

76 ms

flash-placeholder2011.jpg

flash-placeholder2011.jpg

153 ms

salt.png

salt.png

63 ms

01.jpg

01.jpg

107 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

99 ms

03.jpg

03.jpg

98 ms

04.jpg

04.jpg

123 ms

05.jpg

05.jpg

138 ms

06.jpg

06.jpg

160 ms

07.jpg

07.jpg

163 ms

08.jpg

08.jpg

139 ms

09.jpg

09.jpg

184 ms

10.jpg

10.jpg

202 ms

11.jpg

11.jpg

172 ms

12.jpg

12.jpg

183 ms

13.jpg

13.jpg

191 ms

14.jpg

14.jpg

195 ms

15.jpg

15.jpg

205 ms

16.jpg

16.jpg

215 ms

17.jpg

17.jpg

216 ms

rightcol_content-bg.jpg

rightcol_content-bg.jpg

223 ms

col_green-bg.jpg

col_green-bg.jpg

227 ms

button-getaquote.gif

button-getaquote.gif

235 ms

col_blue-bg.jpg

col_blue-bg.jpg

238 ms

icon-phone.gif

icon-phone.gif

247 ms

icon-envelope.gif

icon-envelope.gif

247 ms

leftcol_content-bg.jpg

leftcol_content-bg.jpg

253 ms

leftcol_header-bg.jpg

leftcol_header-bg.jpg

259 ms

search-bg.jpg

search-bg.jpg

275 ms

leftcol_nav-bg.gif

leftcol_nav-bg.gif

269 ms

locations.jpg

locations.jpg

277 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

Accessibility Review

centralsalt.com accessibility score

49

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

centralsalt.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

centralsalt.com SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Centralsalt.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 Centralsalt.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

centralsalt.com

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