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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Welding Supplies | TIG Welder | MIG Welder

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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About Website

Visit weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Welding Supplies Direct content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Welding Supplies Direct supply and sell a wide range of MIG welders, ARC welding, Plasma cutting machines, welding and safety equipment. Browse our online store to buy online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,940 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.326

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

1453 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

262 ms

jquery.jscrollpane.min.js

173 ms

jquery.modal.1.4.1.min.js

177 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to V2.zopim.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 903.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk main page is 2.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 6.7 kB, which is 12% 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 44.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Welding Supplies Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 565.5 kB

  • Original 782.3 kB
  • After minification 646.1 kB
  • After compression 216.8 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 565.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 257.6 kB

  • Original 295.7 kB
  • After minification 238.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 257.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (65%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welding Supplies Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

www.weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

1453 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

jquery-1.7.min.js

262 ms

jquery.jscrollpane.min.js

jquery.jscrollpane.min.js

173 ms

jquery.modal.1.4.1.min.js

jquery.modal.1.4.1.min.js

177 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

jquery.mousewheel.js

176 ms

mwheelIntent.js

mwheelIntent.js

181 ms

sidebar_menu.js

sidebar_menu.js

180 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

337 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

356 ms

jquery.color.js

jquery.color.js

353 ms

jqtransform.js

jqtransform.js

349 ms

easyTooltip.js

easyTooltip.js

363 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

435 ms

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682 ms

prototype.js

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625 ms

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522 ms

validation.js

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525 ms

builder.js

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520 ms

effects.js

effects.js

612 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

719 ms

controls.js

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721 ms

slider.js

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719 ms

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774 ms

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793 ms

menu.js

menu.js

841 ms

translate.js

translate.js

866 ms

cookies.js

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874 ms

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875 ms

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180 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

946 ms

body-bg-2.jpg

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245 ms

logo.png

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246 ms

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166 ms

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166 ms

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169 ms

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1008 ms

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1007 ms

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1107 ms

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1111 ms

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32 ms

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analytics.js

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7 ms

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marker-login.png

1207 ms

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29 ms

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57 ms

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84 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

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172 ms

Accessibility Review

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk 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 Weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk 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

weldingsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Welding Supplies Direct. 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: