Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

westernvalleymodels.co.uk

Radio Controlled Toys & Models | Western Valley Models

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

669 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

717 ms

westernvalleymodels.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Western Valley Models content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about westernvalleymodels.co.uk

Western Valley Models based in Risca near Newport in South Wales are a long-established model shop. We carry a huge stock of radio-controlled and static-model cars, planes, and boats.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernvalleymodels.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 669 ms and then it took 4.4 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

westernvalleymodels.co.uk performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,260 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.773

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.westernvalleymodels.co.uk

669 ms

css

28 ms

theme.dymc.css

330 ms

shopui.css

116 ms

showdata-thumbnailhover.min.js

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Westernvalleymodels.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to 15.cdn.ekm.net and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Westernvalleymodels.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 779.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Westernvalleymodels.co.uk main page is 5.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 111.6 kB
  • After minification 77.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.6 kB, which is 31% 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 96.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 655.1 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Obviously, Western Valley Models needs image optimization as it can save up to 655.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 69.2 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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 21.1 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Westernvalleymodels.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (46%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Valley Models. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westernvalleymodels.co.uk accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

westernvalleymodels.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

westernvalleymodels.co.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westernvalleymodels.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 Westernvalleymodels.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 Western Valley Models. 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: