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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

merrimackvalleymodels.com

Model Trains, Scenery, & Railroad Accessories | Merrimack Valley Models

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merrimackvalleymodels.com page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merrimackvalleymodels.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,010 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.925

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merrimackvalleymodels.com

130 ms

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145 ms

www.merrimackvalleymodels.com

741 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

132 ms

css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Merrimackvalleymodels.com, 28% (17 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Staticw2.yotpo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 350.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Merrimackvalleymodels.com main page is 1.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 796.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 342.1 kB

  • Original 414.0 kB
  • After minification 382.2 kB
  • After compression 71.9 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 342.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 796.1 kB
  • After minification 796.1 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. Merrimack Valley Models images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 577.3 kB
  • After minification 577.3 kB
  • After compression 568.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (60%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merrimack Valley Models. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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130 ms

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145 ms

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741 ms

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132 ms

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126 ms

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Accessibility Review

merrimackvalleymodels.com accessibility score

81

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

merrimackvalleymodels.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merrimackvalleymodels.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Merrimackvalleymodels.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 Merrimackvalleymodels.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

merrimackvalleymodels.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Merrimack Valley Models. 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: