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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

scalehobbyist.com

Scalehobbyist.com: Model airplanes, ships, military vehicles and modeling supplies

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

895 ms

Page Rendered

119 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Scalehobbyist content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scalehobbyist.com

You'll save money with our large selection of high quality plastic and resin model kits, as well as the tools and supplies needed to build and fully finish them.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scalehobbyist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scalehobbyist.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

233 ms

main.css

29 ms

sales2.css

56 ms

normalize.css

81 ms

basic4.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Scalehobbyist.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Images.scanalert.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) belongs to the original domain Scalehobbyist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

338.3 kB

After Optimization

307.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scalehobbyist.com main page is 338.3 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 267.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. 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 25.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 267.4 kB
  • After minification 263.9 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. Scalehobbyist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 310 B

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Scalehobbyist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (30%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scalehobbyist. 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

index.php

index.php

233 ms

main.css

main.css

29 ms

sales2.css

sales2.css

56 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

81 ms

basic4.css

basic4.css

106 ms

basics.js

basics.js

129 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

174 ms

js

js

54 ms

12.gif

12.gif

127 ms

bg_grad_body.jpg

bg_grad_body.jpg

132 ms

header3.png

header3.png

147 ms

home_menu2.png

home_menu2.png

131 ms

categories_menu2.png

categories_menu2.png

136 ms

manufacturers_menu2.png

manufacturers_menu2.png

157 ms

scales_menu2.png

scales_menu2.png

158 ms

account_menu2.png

account_menu2.png

159 ms

cart_menu2.png

cart_menu2.png

172 ms

searchbutton.png

searchbutton.png

182 ms

checkout_menu2.png

checkout_menu2.png

183 ms

shadow_b.png

shadow_b.png

181 ms

frame1.gif

frame1.gif

182 ms

cars1.jpg

cars1.jpg

194 ms

frame2.gif

frame2.gif

203 ms

aircraft2.jpg

aircraft2.jpg

220 ms

ships1.jpg

ships1.jpg

208 ms

vehicles2.jpg

vehicles2.jpg

209 ms

artillery1.jpg

artillery1.jpg

215 ms

figures2.jpg

figures2.jpg

225 ms

buildings1.jpg

buildings1.jpg

235 ms

objects2.jpg

objects2.jpg

235 ms

scenery1.jpg

scenery1.jpg

239 ms

detailing2.jpg

detailing2.jpg

242 ms

paint1.jpg

paint1.jpg

247 ms

airbrush2.jpg

airbrush2.jpg

253 ms

tools1.jpg

tools1.jpg

259 ms

library2.jpg

library2.jpg

257 ms

sb_corner_t_l.gif

sb_corner_t_l.gif

261 ms

sb_corner_t_r.gif

sb_corner_t_r.gif

264 ms

HAS00002462_0_s.jpg

HAS00002462_0_s.jpg

269 ms

HAS00002461_0_s.jpg

HAS00002461_0_s.jpg

275 ms

HAS00002464_0_s.jpg

HAS00002464_0_s.jpg

280 ms

HAS00020674_0_s.jpg

HAS00020674_0_s.jpg

285 ms

HAS00020677_3_s.jpg

HAS00020677_3_s.jpg

280 ms

SAL00031611_0_s.jpg

SAL00031611_0_s.jpg

288 ms

sb_corner_b_l.gif

sb_corner_b_l.gif

249 ms

sb_corner_b_r.gif

sb_corner_b_r.gif

173 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

180 ms

g_shadow_b.gif

g_shadow_b.gif

175 ms

g_shadow_b_r.gif

g_shadow_b_r.gif

171 ms

g_shadow_b_l.gif

g_shadow_b_l.gif

164 ms

cat_point.png

cat_point.png

162 ms

Accessibility Review

scalehobbyist.com accessibility score

69

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scalehobbyist.com 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

SEO Factors

scalehobbyist.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Scalehobbyist.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 Scalehobbyist.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

scalehobbyist.com

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