Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 46

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

sterlingmachinery.com

Home page Sterling Machinery

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

906 ms

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About Website

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Sterling Machinery Sells New and Used Metal Working Machine Tools Dealer, Press Brakes, Shears, Lathes, Mills, Punch Presses, Saws, Grinders, Drills

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sterlingmachinery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sterlingmachinery.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.001

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sterlingmachinery.com

163 ms

www.sterlingmachinery.com

691 ms

sterling.css

124 ms

autocomplete.css

128 ms

menu.css

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Sterlingmachinery.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Image.providesupport.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (691 ms) belongs to the original domain Sterlingmachinery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 712.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sterlingmachinery.com main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 986.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.7 kB

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 243.6 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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 213.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 986.8 kB
  • After minification 915.4 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. Sterling Machinery images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 411.2 kB

  • Original 690.7 kB
  • After minification 657.7 kB
  • After compression 279.5 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 411.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. Sterlingmachinery.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (41%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sterling Machinery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sterlingmachinery.com accessibility score

95

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

sterlingmachinery.com best practices score

46

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sterlingmachinery.com SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sterlingmachinery.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 Sterlingmachinery.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sterling Machinery. 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: