Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

modelworks.co.uk

Modelworks - Online store of decals and accessories for the motorsport modeller

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

modelworks.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to modelworks.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Modelworks best content right away, or after learning these important things about modelworks.co.uk

UK supplier - we carry a large range of decals and accessories from suppliers around the world and now have a range in excess of 500 decals with more being added as and when they become available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Modelworks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

modelworks.co.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

modelworks.co.uk

242 ms

modelworks.co.uk

729 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

534 ms

bootstrap.min.css

552 ms

bootstrap.min.js

476 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Modelworks.co.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (729 ms) belongs to the original domain Modelworks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

991.1 kB

After Optimization

917.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Modelworks.co.uk main page is 991.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 847.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 22.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 847.5 kB
  • After minification 809.4 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. Modelworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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 12.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 811 B

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Modelworks.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (34%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Modelworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

modelworks.co.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

modelworks.co.uk 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

modelworks.co.uk SEO score

86

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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