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Performance

Renders faster than
58% of other websites
89

Accessibility

Visual factors better than
that of 71% of websites
75

Best Practices

More advanced features
available than in
35% of websites
91

SEO

Google-friendlier than
70% of websites

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

About Website

Visit squadron.com now to see the best up-to-date Squadron content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about squadron.com

Squadron offers scale model kits made of plastic, resin and more. Categories include aircraft, armor, ships, sci-fi, cars, tools, paint, books and more! Everything needed for your hobby modeling room!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Squadron.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

squadron.com

152 ms

squadron.com

489 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

76 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

132 ms

css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Squadron.com, 59% (51 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) belongs to the original domain Squadron.com.

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Squadron.com main page is 3.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 261.6 kB

Original 287.0 kB
After minification 249.9 kB
After compression 25.4 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 37.2 kB, which is 13% 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 261.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 2.8 MB
After minification 2.8 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. Squadron images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

Original 555.1 kB
After minification 555.1 kB
After compression 521.0 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

Original 4.8 kB
After minification 4.8 kB
After compression 3.4 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. Squadron.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Squadron. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Squadron.com 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 Squadron.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

squadron.com

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Squadron.com - Adding To The Stash Since 1968

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

squadron.com

squadron.com

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

theme-bundle.head_async.js

css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

squadron.com

squadron.com

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theme-bundle.head_async.js

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