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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

highcountryhobbies.com

High Country Hobbies--We sell HO, N, HOn3 and G gauge model train engines, locomotives, rolling stock, buildings, digital control systems and decoders...

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

306 ms

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About Website

Welcome to highcountryhobbies.com homepage info - get ready to check High Country Hobbies best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about highcountryhobbies.com

Shop now for model railroad and model train engines, rolling stock and accessories. We stock model train items and model railroading supplies in G, O, HO, HOn3 and N gauges. Our products include Athea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highcountryhobbies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 1.8 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

highcountryhobbies.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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110 ms

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379 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

41 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

65 ms

css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Highcountryhobbies.com, 62% (32 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Static.ctctcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (848 ms) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

886.3 kB

After Optimization

705.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Highcountryhobbies.com main page is 886.3 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. 75% 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 442.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 178.2 kB

  • Original 198.5 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 28.8 kB, which is 15% 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 178.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 442.0 kB
  • After minification 442.0 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. High Country Hobbies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 241.0 kB
  • After minification 241.0 kB
  • After compression 239.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Highcountryhobbies.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (27%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of High Country Hobbies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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110 ms

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379 ms

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41 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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130 ms

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67 ms

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129 ms

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113 ms

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48 ms

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111 ms

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113 ms

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161 ms

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Accessibility Review

highcountryhobbies.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

highcountryhobbies.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

highcountryhobbies.com SEO score

90

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

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 Highcountryhobbies.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 Highcountryhobbies.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

highcountryhobbies.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of High Country 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: