Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

hornbyguide.com

Hornby Railways Collector Guide Homepage - UK, Australian & Canadian

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

590 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hornbyguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 590 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hornbyguide.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.306

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hornbyguide.com

590 ms

hornbysite.css

257 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

ga.js

25 ms

bg.gif

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Hornbyguide.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to C.betrad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Hornbyguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 342.9 kB (40%)

Content Size

856.7 kB

After Optimization

513.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Hornbyguide.com main page is 856.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 575.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 9.6 kB, which is 25% 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 30.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 166.3 kB

  • Original 575.1 kB
  • After minification 408.7 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. Obviously, Hornby Guide needs image optimization as it can save up to 166.3 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 135.6 kB

  • Original 230.6 kB
  • After minification 230.4 kB
  • After compression 95.0 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 135.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Hornbyguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (42%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hornby Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hornbyguide.com accessibility score

59

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

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.

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hornbyguide.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

SEO Factors

hornbyguide.com SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hornbyguide.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 Hornbyguide.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 Hornby Guide. 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: