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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

gscalecentral.net

Large Scale Model Garden Railways Forum | G Scale Central

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gscalecentral.net page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gscalecentral.net performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gscalecentral.net

178 ms

www.gscalecentral.net

466 ms

css.php

176 ms

css.php

258 ms

preamble.min.js

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Gscalecentral.net, 9% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Gscalecentral.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Freetools.seobility.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

170.7 kB

After Optimization

117.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gscalecentral.net main page is 170.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 68.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 38.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 42.4 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. Obviously, G Scale Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 68.1 kB
  • After minification 68.1 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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 8.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of G Scale Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gscalecentral.net

gscalecentral.net

178 ms

www.gscalecentral.net

www.gscalecentral.net

466 ms

css.php

css.php

176 ms

css.php

css.php

258 ms

preamble.min.js

preamble.min.js

248 ms

vendor-compiled.js

vendor-compiled.js

255 ms

core-compiled.js

core-compiled.js

433 ms

js

js

42 ms

GSCLogo.png

GSCLogo.png

406 ms

widget.png

widget.png

470 ms

caret-down.svg

caret-down.svg

85 ms

Accessibility Review

gscalecentral.net accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

gscalecentral.net best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

gscalecentral.net SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Gscalecentral.net 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 Gscalecentral.net 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

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