Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hornby.com

Hornby UK - Model Railways, Train Sets, Locomotives & Accessories

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

876 ms

hornby.com screenshot

About Website

Visit hornby.com now to see the best up-to-date Hornby content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hornby.com

All aboard! Welcome to the British brand leader of 00 Gauge railways. Discover our extensive range, news and releases for model train sets ready to buy today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hornby.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hornby.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,250 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hornby.com

163 ms

hornby.com

282 ms

uk.hornby.com

1250 ms

frontend.css

72 ms

hornby.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Hornby.com, 57% (52 requests) were made to D63oxfkn1m8sf.cloudfront.net and 17% (16 requests) were made to Uk.hornby.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Uk.hornby.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 586.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hornby.com main page is 2.4 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 525.0 kB

  • Original 562.5 kB
  • After minification 382.2 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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 180.3 kB, which is 32% 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 525.0 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Hornby images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 314.8 kB
  • After minification 314.8 kB
  • After compression 302.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 56.9 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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. Hornby.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (31%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hornby. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hornby.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

SEO Factors

hornby.com SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Hornby.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 Hornby.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

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