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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

nscaleenthusiast.com

N-Scale Enthusiast: Special Runs, Auctions, N-Scale Collector Magazine, Membership, National N Scale Convention

Page Load Speed

574 ms in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

218 ms

Page Rendered

325 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing N Scale Enthusiast content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nscaleenthusiast.com

This organization is dedicated to the preservation of the history of N Scale Model Railroading, and the railroads they represent

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nscaleenthusiast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 543 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nscaleenthusiast.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nscaleenthusiast.com

31 ms

www.nscaleenthusiast.com

44 ms

HomeStyle.css

15 ms

styles_Alt3.css

31 ms

navigation-menu_Alt3.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Nscaleenthusiast.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (92 ms) belongs to the original domain Nscaleenthusiast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nscaleenthusiast.com main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 25.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. N Scale Enthusiast images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Nscaleenthusiast.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

55

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of N Scale Enthusiast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nscaleenthusiast.com

nscaleenthusiast.com

31 ms

www.nscaleenthusiast.com

www.nscaleenthusiast.com

44 ms

HomeStyle.css

HomeStyle.css

15 ms

styles_Alt3.css

styles_Alt3.css

31 ms

navigation-menu_Alt3.css

navigation-menu_Alt3.css

24 ms

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23 ms

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23 ms

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34 ms

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32 ms

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51 ms

Accessibility Review

nscaleenthusiast.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

nscaleenthusiast.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

nscaleenthusiast.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Nscaleenthusiast.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 Nscaleenthusiast.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

nscaleenthusiast.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of N Scale Enthusiast. 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: