Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

scarm.info

SCARM - The leading design software for model railroad layouts

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

878 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

377 ms

scarm.info screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing SCARM content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scarm.info

Powerful model railroad track planning editor for easy and precise design of scaled train layouts. With instant 3D Viewer, Model Trains Simulator and rich set of additional features.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scarm.info page load time and found that the first response time was 878 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scarm.info performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.394

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

878 ms

sms_stl.css

120 ms

sms-hash.js

239 ms

show_ads.js

355 ms

sms.js

356 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Scarm.info, 7% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (982 ms) belongs to the original domain Scarm.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

636.0 kB

After Optimization

561.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Scarm.info main page is 636.0 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. Javascripts take 411.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 55.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 136.1 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. Obviously, SCARM needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 12% 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 1.1 kB

  • Original 411.0 kB
  • After minification 410.9 kB
  • After compression 409.8 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 924 B
  • After minification 924 B
  • After compression 770 B

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. Scarm.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (69%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCARM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scarm.info accessibility score

74

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

scarm.info best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scarm.info 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scarm.info 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 Scarm.info 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 SCARM. 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: