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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

hobbysurplus.com

Hobby Surplus | Delivering Surplus Savings Since 1940

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

540 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hobby Surplus content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hobbysurplus.com

Hobby Surplus is the internet and mail order division of a Hobby and Toy Business founded by Vincent Amato in the 1940's.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hobbysurplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 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

hobbysurplus.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.233

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hobbysurplus.com

215 ms

style.css

158 ms

jquery.min.js

99 ms

jquery.browser.js

98 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Hobbysurplus.com, 28% (8 requests) were made to De70d6fbd5219ded0a9f-95955c6a61a55e017c4c86a6d84cc235.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (562 ms) relates to the external source De70d6fbd5219ded0a9f-95955c6a61a55e017c4c86a6d84cc235.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

425.6 kB

After Optimization

412.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hobbysurplus.com main page is 425.6 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 349.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 2.1 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 8.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 349.7 kB
  • After minification 344.9 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. Hobby Surplus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 363 B

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 62.2 kB
  • After compression 61.8 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 446 B

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Hobbysurplus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 446 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (32%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hobby Surplus. 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

hobbysurplus.com

hobbysurplus.com

215 ms

style.css

style.css

158 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

99 ms

jquery.browser.js

jquery.browser.js

98 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

117 ms

css

css

109 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

225 ms

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530 ms

amatos-toy-and-hobby.jpg

amatos-toy-and-hobby.jpg

512 ms

amatos-logo.png

amatos-logo.png

521 ms

amatos-logo.png

amatos-logo.png

517 ms

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532_8.ct.955.293.jpg

413 ms

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407 ms

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402 ms

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399 ms

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395 ms

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562 ms

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532_442.ct.309.190.jpg

523 ms

body_bg.png

body_bg.png

238 ms

top_wrap_bg.png

top_wrap_bg.png

164 ms

amatos-logo.png

amatos-logo.png

267 ms

top-facebook-img.png

top-facebook-img.png

237 ms

home_info_overlay_bg.png

home_info_overlay_bg.png

265 ms

content_divider_bg.png

content_divider_bg.png

338 ms

ptc.png

ptc.png

396 ms

pager_item_bg.png

pager_item_bg.png

400 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

158 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

170 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

Accessibility Review

hobbysurplus.com accessibility score

65

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hobbysurplus.com best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hobbysurplus.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hobby Surplus. 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: