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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

tophobbytrains.com

TopHobbyTrains.com - Model Train Railroad Supplies & DCC Services - Store Offline

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

tophobbytrains.com screenshot

About Website

Visit tophobbytrains.com now to see the best up-to-date Top Hobby Trains content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tophobbytrains.com

TopHobbyTrains offers model railroad hobby supplies, HO Scale N Scale & Z Scale model trains and scenery items at deep discount. TopHobbyTrains is authorized dealer for SoundTraxx, TCS, DigiTrax, ESU ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tophobbytrains.com page load time and found that the first response time was 83 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

tophobbytrains.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tophobbytrains.com

83 ms

www.tophobbytrains.com

145 ms

www.tophobbytrains.com

250 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

96 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.0.min.js

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Tophobbytrains.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) belongs to the original domain Tophobbytrains.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tophobbytrains.com main page is 1.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 84.3 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 69.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 182.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Top Hobby Trains needs image optimization as it can save up to 182.2 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 198.8 kB

  • Original 283.7 kB
  • After minification 223.3 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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 198.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Tophobbytrains.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (36%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Top Hobby Trains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tophobbytrains.com

tophobbytrains.com

83 ms

www.tophobbytrains.com

www.tophobbytrains.com

145 ms

www.tophobbytrains.com

www.tophobbytrains.com

250 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

96 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.0.min.js

jquery-ui-1.13.0.min.js

202 ms

json2.js

json2.js

106 ms

jstorage.js

jstorage.js

131 ms

custom.css.aspx

custom.css.aspx

179 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

137 ms

storefront.js

storefront.js

124 ms

storefront.ie10.js

storefront.ie10.js

126 ms

jquery.producthistory.js

jquery.producthistory.js

150 ms

js

js

56 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

154 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

161 ms

CategoryTree.js

CategoryTree.js

150 ms

js

js

78 ms

defaultButtons.js

defaultButtons.js

144 ms

TOPHOBBYTRAINS-3.jpg

TOPHOBBYTRAINS-3.jpg

97 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

96 ms

THTCreditCardImg.jpg

THTCreditCardImg.jpg

98 ms

paypal_logo.gif

paypal_logo.gif

96 ms

top_nav_bg_lt.gif

top_nav_bg_lt.gif

98 ms

top_nav_bg.gif

top_nav_bg.gif

96 ms

top_nav_btn_home.gif

top_nav_btn_home.gif

136 ms

top_nav_btn_about.gif

top_nav_btn_about.gif

141 ms

top_nav_btn_contact.gif

top_nav_btn_contact.gif

150 ms

top_nav_btn_account.gif

top_nav_btn_account.gif

144 ms

top_nav_btn_cart.gif

top_nav_btn_cart.gif

148 ms

custom_search_text.gif

custom_search_text.gif

141 ms

custom_search_submit.gif

custom_search_submit.gif

168 ms

top_nav_bg_rt.gif

top_nav_bg_rt.gif

173 ms

FaceBookCustom.jpg

FaceBookCustom.jpg

174 ms

mod_head_category_lt.gif

mod_head_category_lt.gif

184 ms

mod_head_login_lt.gif

mod_head_login_lt.gif

184 ms

mod_btn_signin.gif

mod_btn_signin.gif

185 ms

mod_head_mans_lt.gif

mod_head_mans_lt.gif

200 ms

mod_head_mail_lt.gif

mod_head_mail_lt.gif

207 ms

mod_btn_submit.gif

mod_btn_submit.gif

216 ms

Prototype-projector.jpg

Prototype-projector.jpg

220 ms

wooden_tool_box.jpg

wooden_tool_box.jpg

226 ms

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325 ms

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249 ms

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248 ms

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262 ms

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303 ms

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287 ms

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287 ms

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280 ms

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309 ms

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361 ms

cart_btn_add.gif

cart_btn_add.gif

340 ms

cart_btn_view.gif

cart_btn_view.gif

340 ms

promo_on_sale.gif

promo_on_sale.gif

253 ms

KAT10-1935.jpg

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261 ms

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277 ms

Adobe-reader_128.jpg

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280 ms

warningsign.png

warningsign.png

279 ms

verification_seal.gif

verification_seal.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

tophobbytrains.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

tophobbytrains.com 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

tophobbytrains.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Tophobbytrains.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 Tophobbytrains.com 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

tophobbytrains.com

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