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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk - Home Page

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to stationroadbaseboards.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Stationroadbaseboards best content right away, or after learning these important things about stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

Station Road Baseboards, where a modular model railway baseboard system is under development. We stock model railway baseboard fittings & components, plasticard, also known as styrene sheet or high in...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

253 ms

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

347 ms

corporatestyle.css

86 ms

gb_styles.css

171 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (477 ms) belongs to the original domain Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.6 kB (30%)

Content Size

208.1 kB

After Optimization

145.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk main page is 208.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 144.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 17.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 31.7 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, Stationroadbaseboards needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 144.8 kB
  • After minification 144.7 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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 39.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (55%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stationroadbaseboards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

253 ms

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

347 ms

corporatestyle.css

corporatestyle.css

86 ms

gb_styles.css

gb_styles.css

171 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

ddsmoothmenu.css

252 ms

ddsmoothmenu-v.css

ddsmoothmenu-v.css

251 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

252 ms

mouseover.js

mouseover.js

252 ms

AJS.js

AJS.js

254 ms

AJS_fx.js

AJS_fx.js

256 ms

gb_scripts.js

gb_scripts.js

335 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

24 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

344 ms

jquery.cookiesdirective.js

jquery.cookiesdirective.js

334 ms

sidebar.js

sidebar.js

358 ms

banner1.js

banner1.js

357 ms

banner2.js

banner2.js

359 ms

copyright.js

copyright.js

417 ms

nexton.gif

nexton.gif

180 ms

nextoff.gif

nextoff.gif

179 ms

backon.gif

backon.gif

179 ms

backoff.gif

backoff.gif

180 ms

allitemson.gif

allitemson.gif

179 ms

allitemsoff.gif

allitemsoff.gif

248 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

23 ms

right.gif

right.gif

154 ms

down.gif

down.gif

153 ms

background-main.gif

background-main.gif

155 ms

titlebar.gif

titlebar.gif

157 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

157 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

236 ms

stretchbar.jpg

stretchbar.jpg

235 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

319 ms

top-picture-end.gif

top-picture-end.gif

237 ms

shoppingcart.gif

shoppingcart.gif

237 ms

small-windows.gif

small-windows.gif

238 ms

tn_fittings.jpg

tn_fittings.jpg

320 ms

tn_PM0124.jpg

tn_PM0124.jpg

321 ms

tn_all_items.jpg

tn_all_items.jpg

324 ms

tn_tools_baseboard_mix.jpg

tn_tools_baseboard_mix.jpg

323 ms

tn_FKBxxx_Brass_Woodscrew.jpg

tn_FKBxxx_Brass_Woodscrew.jpg

323 ms

paragraph-line.jpg

paragraph-line.jpg

399 ms

stretchbar-bottom.jpg

stretchbar-bottom.jpg

402 ms

SagePay_Logo_70.gif

SagePay_Logo_70.gif

394 ms

cards.gif

cards.gif

396 ms

PayPal_mark_24.gif

PayPal_mark_24.gif

397 ms

check_42_24.gif

check_42_24.gif

398 ms

telephone.gif

telephone.gif

474 ms

envelope.gif

envelope.gif

477 ms

stretchbar-javascript.jpg

stretchbar-javascript.jpg

472 ms

button.gif

button.gif

468 ms

bottom-shade.gif

bottom-shade.gif

469 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

71 ms

ddsmoothmenu.htm

ddsmoothmenu.htm

418 ms

w_close.gif

w_close.gif

363 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

362 ms

g_close.gif

g_close.gif

364 ms

indicator.gif

indicator.gif

362 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

357 ms

Accessibility Review

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk accessibility score

66

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

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk best practices score

42

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1250

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stationroadbaseboards.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 Stationroadbaseboards.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1250. 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

stationroadbaseboards.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stationroadbaseboards. 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: