Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

australian-trains.com

Australian Trains - Rail and train journeys throughout Australia

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

955 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

australian-trains.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Australian-trains.com page load time and found that the first response time was 955 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

australian-trains.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

australian-trains.com

955 ms

reset.css

456 ms

style.css

465 ms

colorbox.css

466 ms

ajax.js

466 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Australian-trains.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Secure.travelonline.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Australian-trains.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

239.7 kB

After Optimization

182.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Australian-trains.com main page is 239.7 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 152.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 14.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 152.0 kB
  • After minification 149.7 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. Australian Trains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 23.8 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Australian-trains.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (38%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Australian Trains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

australian-trains.com accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

australian-trains.com best practices score

67

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

australian-trains.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Australian-trains.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 Australian-trains.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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