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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

northernrailway.co.uk

Northern | Buy Cheap Train Tickets Online | Rail Fares

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

824 ms

Page Rendered

428 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernrailway.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northernrailway.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northernrailway.co.uk

142 ms

northernrailway.co.uk

286 ms

www.northernrailway.co.uk

51 ms

gtm.js

165 ms

uc.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Northernrailway.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) belongs to the original domain Northernrailway.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northernrailway.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 8.3 kB, which is 12% 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 58.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Northern Rail Way images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 238.3 kB
  • After minification 238.3 kB
  • After compression 229.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 326 B

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Northernrailway.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (47%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Rail Way. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northernrailway.co.uk accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northernrailway.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northernrailway.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Northernrailway.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 Northernrailway.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 Northern Rail Way. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: