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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

rtmodels.co.uk

RT Models, Scale model railway kits and detailing parts. Standard and narrow gauges covered as well as industrial, light and mainline railways

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

270 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

About Website

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

RT Models, scale model railway kits and detailing parts for standard and narrow gauges in 2mm scale, 4mm scale and 7mm scale. N gauge, 00 gauge, EM gauge, P4 gauge, 009 Gauge, 0-14 gauge, 0-16.5 gauge...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rtmodels.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 270 ms and then it took 1.7 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

rtmodels.co.uk performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rtmodels.co.uk

270 ms

rtmodels.co.uk

414 ms

rt_models_g.css

83 ms

index_p.css

244 ms

rt_models_g.js

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Rtmodels.co.uk, 15% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (471 ms) belongs to the original domain Rtmodels.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

130.8 kB

After Optimization

124.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rtmodels.co.uk main page is 130.8 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 121.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 5.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.3 kB
  • After minification 121.3 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. RT Models images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 278 B
  • After minification 278 B
  • After compression 206 B

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 72 B or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 834 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Rtmodels.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 834 B or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RT Models. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rtmodels.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

rtmodels.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

rtmodels.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rtmodels.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 Rtmodels.co.uk 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

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