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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

northerntoolsupply.com

Northern Tool Supply | Engineering Solutions - Precision Tools - Cutting Tools

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

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About Website

Visit northerntoolsupply.com now to see the best up-to-date Northern Tool Supply content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about northerntoolsupply.com

Northern Tool Supply sells cutting tools, abrasive products, indexable tooling, precision tools, machinery, inspection tooling and safety supplies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northerntoolsupply.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northerntoolsupply.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,590 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northerntoolsupply.com

168 ms

nts.css

75 ms

ga.js

7 ms

TOPBARliteblue.gif

190 ms

backgroundimage.gif

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Northerntoolsupply.com, 21% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (745 ms) belongs to the original domain Northerntoolsupply.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

766.8 kB

After Optimization

734.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northerntoolsupply.com main page is 766.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 328.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 13.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 301.1 kB
  • After minification 287.0 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. Northern Tool Supply images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 328.6 kB
  • After minification 328.6 kB
  • After compression 323.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 120.3 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. Northerntoolsupply.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (17%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Tool Supply. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northerntoolsupply.com

northerntoolsupply.com

168 ms

nts.css

nts.css

75 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

TOPBARliteblue.gif

TOPBARliteblue.gif

190 ms

backgroundimage.gif

backgroundimage.gif

164 ms

onlineordering.gif

onlineordering.gif

164 ms

requestaquote.gif

requestaquote.gif

165 ms

contactus.gif

contactus.gif

165 ms

vendorproductsearch.gif

vendorproductsearch.gif

165 ms

services.gif

services.gif

498 ms

productnews.gif

productnews.gif

497 ms

mainenortherntoolsupplyoffice3.jpg

mainenortherntoolsupplyoffice3.jpg

745 ms

TITLEbreakingnews.jpg

TITLEbreakingnews.jpg

606 ms

yellowblock.gif

yellowblock.gif

497 ms

oemetacoolant.png

oemetacoolant.png

498 ms

text.png

text.png

744 ms

blueblock.gif

blueblock.gif

606 ms

youtubebutton.jpg

youtubebutton.jpg

743 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

rlgtAnwoHzA

rlgtAnwoHzA

131 ms

e6Ywvk5Fo84

e6Ywvk5Fo84

90 ms

BLLkQqox2GQ

BLLkQqox2GQ

181 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

9 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

61 ms

base.js

base.js

94 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

31 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

213 ms

base.js

base.js

219 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

411 ms

mK0xWDPcwcXQhJC0zos_TWAHQXo6uV6sCgJ_cLtDow8.js

mK0xWDPcwcXQhJC0zos_TWAHQXo6uV6sCgJ_cLtDow8.js

228 ms

embed.js

embed.js

162 ms

embed.js

embed.js

28 ms

id

id

25 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

40 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

49 ms

Create

Create

199 ms

Create

Create

201 ms

Create

Create

284 ms

requestaquote2.gif

requestaquote2.gif

174 ms

findus2.gif

findus2.gif

173 ms

products2.gif

products2.gif

172 ms

aboutus2.gif

aboutus2.gif

171 ms

requestaquote2.gif

requestaquote2.gif

172 ms

contactus2.gif

contactus2.gif

173 ms

findus2.gif

findus2.gif

254 ms

vendorsearch2.gif

vendorsearch2.gif

256 ms

productsearch2.gif

productsearch2.gif

254 ms

specials2.gif

specials2.gif

255 ms

onlineordering2.gif

onlineordering2.gif

255 ms

vendorproductsearch2.gif

vendorproductsearch2.gif

255 ms

services2.gif

services2.gif

339 ms

productnews2.gif

productnews2.gif

338 ms

Accessibility Review

northerntoolsupply.com accessibility score

64

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Best Practices

northerntoolsupply.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northerntoolsupply.com SEO score

69

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

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 Northerntoolsupply.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 Northerntoolsupply.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

northerntoolsupply.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Northern Tool Supply. 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: