Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

downrail.co.uk

Downpatrick & County Down Railway | Ireland's only Mainline Heritage Railway

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Downrail content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about downrail.co.uk

Ireland's only full size heritage railway. Travel on steam and heritage diesel trains running through the County Down countryside, and visit our museum and see our collection of carriages and loc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downrail.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downrail.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downrail.co.uk

258 ms

www.downrail.co.uk

547 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

49 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

51 ms

views-frontend.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Downrail.co.uk, 30% (17 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 21% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (827 ms) belongs to the original domain Downrail.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

928.5 kB

After Optimization

769.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Downrail.co.uk main page is 928.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 365.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 92.8 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 80.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 342.0 kB
  • After minification 342.0 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. Downrail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 365.1 kB
  • After minification 365.1 kB
  • After compression 319.6 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 45.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 125.6 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 93.0 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. Downrail.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (83%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downrail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

downrail.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

downrail.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

downrail.co.uk SEO score

97

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 Downrail.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 Downrail.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 data is detected on the main page of Downrail. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: