Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

metro.co.in

METRO Cash & Carry India – International Leader in B2B Wholesale

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

Welcome to metro.co.in homepage info - get ready to check METRO best content for India right away, or after learning these important things about metro.co.in

METRO Cash & Carry is India's leading business-to-business wholesaler, serving the needs of traders, hotels, restaurants, caterers, offices and institutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metro.co.in page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 9.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metro.co.in performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metro.co.in

2567 ms

www.metro.co.in

2512 ms

style-blessed1.css

230 ms

style.css

335 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

349 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Metro.co.in, 1% (1 request) were made to Metro.d3.sc.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Metro.co.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 712.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Metro.co.in main page is 2.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 123.2 kB

  • Original 144.8 kB
  • After minification 121.8 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.0 kB, which is 16% 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 123.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 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. METRO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 306.1 kB

  • Original 425.1 kB
  • After minification 424.3 kB
  • After compression 118.9 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 306.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 226.7 kB

  • Original 281.8 kB
  • After minification 281.7 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Metro.co.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 226.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (77%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of METRO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metro.co.in accessibility score

67

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

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

Best Practices

metro.co.in best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metro.co.in SEO score

86

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

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

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 Metro.co.in 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 Metro.co.in 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 description is not detected on the main page of METRO. 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: