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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

smithmetals.net

Home | Smith Architectural Metals | Greensboro, NC

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

831 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

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Smith Architectural Metals, LLC is a full service miscellaneous metal fabrication and installation company. Smith Architectural Metals was established in 1997 in Greensboro, NC and is dedicated to bec...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smithmetals.net page load time and found that the first response time was 831 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smithmetals.net performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smithmetals.net

831 ms

cn_photos.css

72 ms

mootools.js

204 ms

caption.js

138 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Smithmetals.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (831 ms) belongs to the original domain Smithmetals.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.9 kB (1%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smithmetals.net main page is 4.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 8.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Smith Metals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 572 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Smithmetals.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 572 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (15%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smith Metals. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smithmetals.net

smithmetals.net

831 ms

cn_photos.css

cn_photos.css

72 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

204 ms

caption.js

caption.js

138 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

210 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

141 ms

system.css

system.css

136 ms

general.css

general.css

141 ms

template.css

template.css

210 ms

smith_bkg_home_new.jpg

smith_bkg_home_new.jpg

334 ms

logo.png

logo.png

71 ms

project_gallery.png

project_gallery.png

74 ms

spacer.png

spacer.png

70 ms

about.png

about.png

72 ms

capabilities.png

capabilities.png

72 ms

contact.png

contact.png

141 ms

home.png

home.png

142 ms

main_photo_1.png

main_photo_1.png

400 ms

main_photo_1a.png

main_photo_1a.png

398 ms

main_photo_1b.png

main_photo_1b.png

339 ms

main_photo_1c.png

main_photo_1c.png

340 ms

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main_photo_1d.png

344 ms

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main_photo_1e.png

469 ms

main_photo_1f.png

main_photo_1f.png

474 ms

main_photo_2.png

main_photo_2.png

477 ms

main_photo_2a.png

main_photo_2a.png

479 ms

main_photo_2b.png

main_photo_2b.png

534 ms

main_photo_2c.png

main_photo_2c.png

533 ms

main_photo_2d.png

main_photo_2d.png

541 ms

main_photo_2e.png

main_photo_2e.png

546 ms

main_photo_2f.png

main_photo_2f.png

549 ms

main_photo_3.png

main_photo_3.png

550 ms

main_photo_3a.png

main_photo_3a.png

602 ms

main_photo_3b.png

main_photo_3b.png

605 ms

main_photo_3c.png

main_photo_3c.png

613 ms

main_photo_3d.png

main_photo_3d.png

621 ms

main_photo_3e.png

main_photo_3e.png

618 ms

main_photo_3f.png

main_photo_3f.png

621 ms

slogan.png

slogan.png

671 ms

nomma.png

nomma.png

675 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

684 ms

appian.png

appian.png

686 ms

Accessibility Review

smithmetals.net accessibility score

70

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smithmetals.net best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

smithmetals.net 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

smithmetals.net

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