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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

model-railways-live.co.uk

World of Railways - British Railway Modelling, Garden Rail, Narrow Gauge World & Traction Magazines

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

956 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Model-railways-live.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 3.1 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

model-railways-live.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,760 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

model-railways-live.co.uk

48 ms

all-shows

424 ms

gtm.js

101 ms

site

166 ms

gpt.js

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Model-railways-live.co.uk, 13% (5 requests) were made to Azure.wgp-cdn.co.uk and 10% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Go.automatad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Model-railways-live.co.uk main page is 3.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 7.6 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 39.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 359.6 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB

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. Obviously, Model Railways Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 359.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 586 B

  • Original 396.2 kB
  • After minification 396.2 kB
  • After compression 395.6 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 26 (68%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Model Railways Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

model-railways-live.co.uk

model-railways-live.co.uk

48 ms

all-shows

all-shows

424 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

101 ms

site

site

166 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

159 ms

worldofrailwayscouk.js

worldofrailwayscouk.js

128 ms

pub-3173650925672820

pub-3173650925672820

157 ms

afihbs.js

afihbs.js

1390 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

86 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

90 ms

lightslider.min.js

lightslider.min.js

123 ms

lightslider

lightslider

154 ms

site

site

405 ms

bundled.min.js

bundled.min.js

122 ms

52231e625e.js

52231e625e.js

157 ms

_dmpt.js

_dmpt.js

123 ms

js

js

46 ms

css

css

125 ms

WOR-logo.png

WOR-logo.png

338 ms

Bristol2024.jpg

Bristol2024.jpg

1258 ms

NationalShowLogoFINALv1.jpg

NationalShowLogoFINALv1.jpg

586 ms

Doncaster2025logo1.jpg

Doncaster2025logo1.jpg

1331 ms

London2025web.jpg

London2025web.jpg

1185 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

261 ms

114733X1573971.skimlinks.js

114733X1573971.skimlinks.js

306 ms

_dmptv4.js

_dmptv4.js

226 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

225 ms

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e5ehpa17jg

249 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

129 ms

font

font

218 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

121 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

53 ms

51 ms

choice.js

choice.js

442 ms

loader.js

loader.js

38 ms

page

page

25 ms

impl.20240523-16-RELEASE.es5.js

impl.20240523-16-RELEASE.es5.js

28 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

4 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

model-railways-live.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

model-railways-live.co.uk best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

model-railways-live.co.uk SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Model-railways-live.co.uk 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 Model-railways-live.co.uk 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

model-railways-live.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Model Railways Live. 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: