Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

steamdays.co.uk

Steamdays - Providers of High Quality Model Steam Engines & Model Locomotives

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

469 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

steamdays.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Steamdays content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about steamdays.co.uk

As a passionate railway enthusiast and collector I have been involved with steam models for almost 30 years. I offer an honest, reliable and friendly service and as such many of my clients have since ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Steamdays.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 469 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

steamdays.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

steamdays.co.uk

469 ms

node.css

442 ms

defaults.css

649 ms

system.css

697 ms

system-menus.css

852 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 Steamdays.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Steamdays.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Steamdays.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 19.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Steamdays images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 78.6 kB

  • Original 125.8 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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 78.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. Steamdays.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (40%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steamdays. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

steamdays.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

steamdays.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

steamdays.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Steamdays.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 Steamdays.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 Steamdays. 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: