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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

railworks.com

Track & Transit Experts, Railway Construction & Contractors | RailWorks

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

674 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

About Website

Welcome to railworks.com homepage info - get ready to check Rail Works best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about railworks.com

Founded in 1998, RailWorks Corporation is North America's leading provider of track, transit and rail system services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 674 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railworks.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railworks.com

674 ms

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110 ms

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112 ms

css_TsVRTbLFUpEZAfw-_bWPJu840QT523CPjUVJ5MRWfyk.css

129 ms

css_BKsRc__r2V45_tx10IKzdL6Z9ZOkkyE-GrJhmDx9yoU.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Railworks.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (674 ms) belongs to the original domain Railworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railworks.com 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 34.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 5.4 kB, which is 14% 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 32.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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 Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 111.3 kB

  • Original 175.3 kB
  • After minification 137.3 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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 111.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 70.4 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Railworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (25%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

railworks.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

railworks.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

railworks.com 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 Railworks.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 Railworks.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 description is not detected on the main page of Rail Works. 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: