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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

forgefix.co.uk

Fixings & Fasteners by the Experts for the Experts - Fixings & Fastenings | Forgefix

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

forgefix.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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One of the UK’s leading distributors of fixings and fastenings with over 30 years of experience, we supply in excess of 2000 different product lines to builder’s merchants, plumbing merchants, DIY out...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forgefix.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forgefix.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.654

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forgefix.co.uk

286 ms

www.forgefix.co.uk

902 ms

b7b2939e26869914e60a5c2868768373.js

493 ms

js

66 ms

css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Forgefix.co.uk, 23% (22 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Forgefix.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 712.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forgefix.co.uk main page is 4.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 161.3 kB
  • After minification 156.0 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 136.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 520.2 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Obviously, Forgefix needs image optimization as it can save up to 520.2 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 249.7 kB
  • After minification 249.7 kB
  • After compression 199.3 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 50.5 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. Forgefix.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (59%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forgefix. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forgefix.co.uk

forgefix.co.uk

286 ms

www.forgefix.co.uk

www.forgefix.co.uk

902 ms

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493 ms

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Accessibility Review

forgefix.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forgefix.co.uk 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

forgefix.co.uk SEO score

82

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Forgefix.co.uk 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 Forgefix.co.uk 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

forgefix.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Forgefix. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: