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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bnsf.com

BNSF Railway

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

678 ms

About Website

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

BNSF operates one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with 32,500 miles of rail across the western two-thirds of the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bnsf.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 3.3 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

bnsf.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bnsf.com

91 ms

www.bnsf.com

672 ms

foundation.min.css

275 ms

foundation.min.css

411 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA2NVefgjqrux_10285240307101407.js

464 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Bnsf.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to 0b7280a6ddcc78f36cb6-9e3585f755c0a72125e9a1a6acaf42e9.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bnsf.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 605.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bnsf.com main page is 3.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 126.7 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 29.0 kB, which is 23% 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 107.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. BNSF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 242.0 kB

  • Original 413.7 kB
  • After minification 400.2 kB
  • After compression 171.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 242.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 221.0 kB

  • Original 259.2 kB
  • After minification 252.0 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Bnsf.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (59%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BNSF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bnsf.com accessibility score

71

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.

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

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

bnsf.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bnsf.com SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bnsf.com 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 Bnsf.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

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