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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

branchlinebritain.co.uk

Branch Line Britain - celebrating Britain's minor railways

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

About Website

Visit branchlinebritain.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Branch Line Britain content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about branchlinebritain.co.uk

Branch Line Britain gives information on all Britain's railway branch lines including history, scenery, towns and journeys.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Branchlinebritain.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 467 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

branchlinebritain.co.uk performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

branchlinebritain.co.uk

467 ms

functions.js.php

245 ms

start.php

348 ms

BritshRailwaysBook2b[1].jpg

358 ms

mainbg.gif

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Branchlinebritain.co.uk, 7% (1 request) were made to Hadleighbooks.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (513 ms) belongs to the original domain Branchlinebritain.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

393.1 kB

After Optimization

337.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Branchlinebritain.co.uk main page is 393.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 324.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 52.7 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. 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 43.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 324.6 kB
  • After minification 323.0 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. Branch Line Britain images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 10.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Branch Line Britain. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

branchlinebritain.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

branchlinebritain.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

branchlinebritain.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Branchlinebritain.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 Branchlinebritain.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Branch Line Britain. 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: