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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

locoboose.com

Loco-Boose Hobbies | Home Page -- Suspended Railway Systems

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

634 ms

Page Rendered

220 ms

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About Website

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Loco-Boose Hobbies Home Page, manufacturers of Sky-Trestle suspended train systems for G-Scale and O-Scale trains

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Key Findings

We analyzed Locoboose.com page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 854 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

locoboose.com performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locoboose.com

286 ms

lbh.css

69 ms

lbh.js

77 ms

urchin.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Locoboose.com, 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) belongs to the original domain Locoboose.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

59.1 kB

After Optimization

44.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Locoboose.com main page is 59.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 12.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 34.5 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. Loco Boose images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 8.8 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 1.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 561 B
  • After minification 535 B
  • After compression 154 B

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. Locoboose.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407 B or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loco Boose. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

locoboose.com

locoboose.com

286 ms

lbh.css

lbh.css

69 ms

lbh.js

lbh.js

77 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

65 ms

gold_bgd.gif

gold_bgd.gif

54 ms

topBar.jpg

topBar.jpg

83 ms

sideBarTop.jpg

sideBarTop.jpg

50 ms

sideBarMid.jpg

sideBarMid.jpg

60 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

59 ms

003399-dot.gif

003399-dot.gif

51 ms

sideNavBottom.jpg

sideNavBottom.jpg

91 ms

LGB_AI.gif

LGB_AI.gif

203 ms

navbar_bgd.jpg

navbar_bgd.jpg

164 ms

ColorTan.gif

ColorTan.gif

93 ms

mainImage.jpg

mainImage.jpg

191 ms

botbar_bgd.jpg

botbar_bgd.jpg

94 ms

Accessibility Review

locoboose.com accessibility score

70

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 [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

Best Practices

locoboose.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

locoboose.com SEO score

67

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 Locoboose.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 Locoboose.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Loco Boose. 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: