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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

greatthirdrail.org

GreatThirdRail.org - The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Internet Resource

Page Load Speed

524 ms in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

313 ms

Page Rendered

95 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Great Third Rail content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about greatthirdrail.org

GreatThirdRail.org chronicles the history of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railway and its predecessor companies. Learn about “Fast, Frequent, Electrified Service” to Chicago's western suburbs and the Fo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatthirdrail.org page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 408 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatthirdrail.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatthirdrail.org

116 ms

gtr_index_styles.css

31 ms

navfunctions.js

56 ms

header_link_sprite2.png

85 ms

transimg.png

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Greatthirdrail.org, 5% (1 request) were made to Facebook.com and 5% (1 request) were made to M.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (122 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatthirdrail.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

261.3 kB

After Optimization

126.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatthirdrail.org main page is 261.3 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 240.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 2.6 kB, which is 25% 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 7.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 117.4 kB

  • Original 240.3 kB
  • After minification 122.9 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. Obviously, Great Third Rail needs image optimization as it can save up to 117.4 kB or 49% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 545 B
  • After compression 149 B

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 1.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Greatthirdrail.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Third Rail. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

greatthirdrail.org accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

greatthirdrail.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

greatthirdrail.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Greatthirdrail.org 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 Greatthirdrail.org 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 Great Third Rail. 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: