Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

mech9.com

mech9 - Mech9.com |Scale Model Kits, Color Guide, Paint Conversion, Paint Chart, Collectibles, Shop Reviews, Toys and more

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

963 ms

Page Rendered

369 ms

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About Website

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A Review site for Gundam, Mecha, Anime, Model Building, Toys and More with English Translation of Japanese Scale Model Kit Color Guides and Construction Manuals

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mech9.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mech9.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mech9.com

47 ms

www.mech9.com

83 ms

www.mech9.com

71 ms

55013136-widget_css_bundle.css

26 ms

w3.css

275 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Mech9.com, 21% (6 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to Blogger.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) relates to the external source Lh3.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

783.3 kB

After Optimization

710.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Mech9.com main page is 783.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 616.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 71.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 616.3 kB
  • After minification 616.3 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. Mech9 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 414 B

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 68.5 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Mech9.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (24%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mech9. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mech9.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

mech9.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

mech9.com SEO score

94

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mech9.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 Mech9.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Mech9. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: