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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

railstream.org

RailStream, LLC. - Live Railcams

Page Load Speed

292 ms in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

146 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railstream.org page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 146 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railstream.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,960 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railstream.org

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Railstream.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (146 ms) belongs to the original domain Railstream.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (16%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railstream.org main page is 7.8 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 493 B
  • After minification 464 B
  • After compression 302 B

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 191 B or 39% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 249.4 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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. Rail Stream images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 660.9 kB

  • Original 987.0 kB
  • After minification 986.7 kB
  • After compression 326.1 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 660.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 364.9 kB

  • Original 414.4 kB
  • After minification 293.6 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. Railstream.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 364.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

railstream.org accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

railstream.org 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

railstream.org SEO score

100

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

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 Railstream.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 Railstream.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 Rail Stream. 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: