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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

greatnorthernrail.com

Great Northern Trains: Cheap Train Tickets, No Booking Fees

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

793 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatnorthernrail.com page load time and found that the first response time was 793 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatnorthernrail.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.greatnorthernrail.com

793 ms

37298e4f-f7e3-4006-b645-5b5dcfde861b.css

531 ms

main-greatnorthern-cdac397164.css

507 ms

bundle.min.js

648 ms

bundle.min.js

767 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Greatnorthernrail.com, 67% (12 requests) were made to Static.greatnorthernrail.com and 22% (4 requests) were made to Widgets.otrl.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatnorthernrail.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

653.2 kB

After Optimization

539.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatnorthernrail.com main page is 653.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 512.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 133.3 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 113.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 512.1 kB
  • After minification 512.1 kB
  • After compression 511.9 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 269 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 996 B
  • After compression 737 B

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. Greatnorthernrail.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 269 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (46%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Northern Rail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

greatnorthernrail.com accessibility score

94

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Best Practices

greatnorthernrail.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

greatnorthernrail.com SEO score

86

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greatnorthernrail.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 Greatnorthernrail.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 data is detected on the main page of Great Northern Rail. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: