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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

shipmodelersassociation.org

Ship Modelers Association - Home Page

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

77 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ship Modelers Association content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shipmodelersassociation.org

The Ship Modelers Association (SMA) is the largest ship modeling club in California, and one of the largest in the nation. We seek to foster research and interest in our Nautical Heritage by researchi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shipmodelersassociation.org page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shipmodelersassociation.org performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shipmodelersassociation.org

261 ms

styleBase.css

66 ms

base1.js

128 ms

lightbox.css

129 ms

prototype.js

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Shipmodelersassociation.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (782 ms) belongs to the original domain Shipmodelersassociation.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

337.2 kB

After Optimization

143.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shipmodelersassociation.org main page is 337.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 202.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 9.8 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 6.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 101.5 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. Ship Modelers Association images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 165.0 kB

  • Original 202.1 kB
  • After minification 145.2 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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 165.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Shipmodelersassociation.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ship Modelers Association. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shipmodelersassociation.org

shipmodelersassociation.org

261 ms

styleBase.css

styleBase.css

66 ms

base1.js

base1.js

128 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

129 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

321 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

214 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

193 ms

effects.js

effects.js

129 ms

builder.js

builder.js

66 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

66 ms

border_right.png

border_right.png

66 ms

logo561.png

logo561.png

130 ms

genpostitnoteheader.html

genpostitnoteheader.html

104 ms

genhpmission.html

genhpmission.html

782 ms

Picture1.jpg

Picture1.jpg

66 ms

logo_SMA_web_no_words.jpg

logo_SMA_web_no_words.jpg

128 ms

SMHH_Cover.jpg

SMHH_Cover.jpg

129 ms

Untitled.jpg

Untitled.jpg

129 ms

border_bottom.png

border_bottom.png

168 ms

border_botcorner.png

border_botcorner.png

193 ms

Alfred24T.jpg

Alfred24T.jpg

194 ms

P1010096T.JPG

P1010096T.JPG

193 ms

P4190089T.JPG

P4190089T.JPG

193 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

232 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

257 ms

Accessibility Review

shipmodelersassociation.org accessibility score

61

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

shipmodelersassociation.org 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

SEO Factors

shipmodelersassociation.org 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shipmodelersassociation.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Shipmodelersassociation.org 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

shipmodelersassociation.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ship Modelers Association. 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: