Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

fast-tracks.net

Fast Tracks Hobbyworks Front Page

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

639 ms

fast-tracks.net screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Fast Tracks content for Sweden. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fast-tracks.net

Welcome to Fast Tracks Hobbyworks. The premiere supplier of model railroad track building tools and accessories since 2003.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fast-tracks.net page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 4 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

fast-tracks.net performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.207

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fast-tracks.net

113 ms

handlaidtrack.com

942 ms

style.css

63 ms

styles.css

79 ms

css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 206 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fast-tracks.net, 89% (184 requests) were made to Handlaidtrack.com and 4% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (942 ms) relates to the external source Handlaidtrack.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 532.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Fast-tracks.net main page is 4.7 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. 80% 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 473.5 kB

  • Original 547.3 kB
  • After minification 544.9 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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 473.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Fast Tracks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (50%)

Requests Now

187

After Optimization

93

The browser has sent 187 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fast Tracks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fast-tracks.net accessibility score

89

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.

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

fast-tracks.net best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

fast-tracks.net SEO score

93

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fast-tracks.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 Fast-tracks.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Fast Tracks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: