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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

scalefour.org

The Scalefour Society

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Scalefour content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scalefour.org

A society for railway modellers working in 4mm/ft, to the P4 standards. Steward of that standard, and host of model railway shows, area groups and a discussion forum.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scalefour.org page load time and found that the first response time was 237 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

scalefour.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

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)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scalefour.org

237 ms

www.scalefour.org

234 ms

www.scalefour.org

509 ms

house-style.8.css

132 ms

231cover140.jpg

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Scalefour.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) belongs to the original domain Scalefour.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

191.4 kB

After Optimization

168.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scalefour.org main page is 191.4 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 169.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 22% 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 10.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 163.5 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. Scalefour images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 8.8 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Scalefour.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scalefour. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

scalefour.org accessibility score

93

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 valid value for its [lang] attribute.

Best Practices

scalefour.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

scalefour.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Scalefour.org 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 Scalefour.org 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 Scalefour. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: