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model-railways-live.co.uk

World of Railways - British Railway Modelling, Garden Rail, Narrow Gauge World & Traction Magazines

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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About Website

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World of Railways is the UKs biggest Railway themed website, incorporating British Railway Modelling, Garden Rail, Narrow Gauge World & Traction

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Key Findings

We analyzed Model-railways-live.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 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

model-railways-live.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

model-railways-live.co.uk

267 ms

www.world-of-railways.co.uk

684 ms

bootstrap.css

482 ms

extend-bootstrap.css

444 ms

font-awesome.css

414 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Model-railways-live.co.uk, 44% (31 requests) were made to World-of-railways.co.uk and 24% (17 requests) were made to Wgp-cdn.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Wgp-cdn.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 512.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Model-railways-live.co.uk main page is 1.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.7 kB, which is 24% 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 49.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 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. Model Railways Live images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 95.5 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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 50.3 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 283.3 kB

  • Original 333.0 kB
  • After minification 266.3 kB
  • After compression 49.8 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. Model-railways-live.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (42%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Model Railways Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

model-railways-live.co.uk SEO score

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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 Model-railways-live.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 Model-railways-live.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

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