Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

greathobbies.com

Great Hobbies

Page Load Speed

877 ms in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

636 ms

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

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Great Hobbies is Canada's leading dealer for radio controlled models and related hobby products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greathobbies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 817 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greathobbies.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greathobbies.com

60 ms

www.greathobbies.com

152 ms

styles_gh1.css

109 ms

nivo-slider.css

45 ms

custom-nivo-slider.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Greathobbies.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) belongs to the original domain Greathobbies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

364.7 kB

After Optimization

247.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Greathobbies.com main page is 364.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 228.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 80.0 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 14.9 kB, which is 19% 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 71.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 228.5 kB
  • After minification 215.1 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. Great Hobbies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 4.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Greathobbies.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (11%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Hobbies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greathobbies.com accessibility score

80

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

greathobbies.com best practices score

58

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

greathobbies.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greathobbies.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Greathobbies.com 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 Great Hobbies. 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: