Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ziplinks.com

ZipLink PLC Connector Cables | PLC Cables | AutomationDirect

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

463 ms

ziplinks.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ziplinks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ziplinks.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ziplinks.com

46 ms

ziplink

118 ms

authorize

358 ms

ziplink_pre-wired_connection_cables_-a-_modules

155 ms

jquery.min.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ziplinks.com, 47% (47 requests) were made to Automationdirect.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.automationdirect.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Bam.nr-data.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

495.5 kB

After Optimization

323.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ziplinks.com main page is 495.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 216.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 165.7 kB

  • Original 216.6 kB
  • After minification 202.8 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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 165.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 56.6 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. Zip Link S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 186.9 kB
  • After minification 186.8 kB
  • After compression 184.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 335 B

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. Ziplinks.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (72%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zip Link S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ziplinks.com accessibility score

74

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ziplinks.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ziplinks.com SEO score

93

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ziplinks.com 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 Ziplinks.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 Zip Link S. 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: