Tools & Wizards About Us
nationalcaster.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

nationalcaster.com

National Caster Corporation - Industrial Casters and Wheels

Page Load Speed

858 ms in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

516 ms

Page Rendered

170 ms

nationalcaster.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing National Caster content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nationalcaster.com

National Caster Corporation manufactures casters and caster wheels for all business, industry, and institutional needs.

Visit nationalcaster.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalcaster.com page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 686 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

nationalcaster.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalcaster.com

172 ms

dropDown.css

65 ms

styles-p.css

78 ms

ga.js

29 ms

newNCClogo4.jpg

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalcaster.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) belongs to the original domain Nationalcaster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

169.5 kB

After Optimization

153.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationalcaster.com main page is 169.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 131.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 2.1 kB, which is 11% 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 14.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 606 B

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 130.5 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. National Caster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-32%

Potential reduce by 805 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Nationalcaster.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 805 B or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Caster. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

nationalcaster.com

nationalcaster.com

172 ms

dropDown.css

dropDown.css

65 ms

styles-p.css

styles-p.css

78 ms

ga.js

ga.js

29 ms

newNCClogo4.jpg

newNCClogo4.jpg

136 ms

clear-header.gif

clear-header.gif

49 ms

topNavFullBg.jpg

topNavFullBg.jpg

68 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

72 ms

catalog.jpg

catalog.jpg

135 ms

caster-wheel-selection.jpg

caster-wheel-selection.jpg

136 ms

casters-wheels.jpg

casters-wheels.jpg

266 ms

newNCClogo.jpg

newNCClogo.jpg

166 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

index.php

index.php

139 ms

Accessibility Review

nationalcaster.com accessibility score

71

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

nationalcaster.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

nationalcaster.com SEO score

62

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

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 Nationalcaster.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 Nationalcaster.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

nationalcaster.com

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