Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

trainspots.co.uk

Trainspots (Ver 2.60) Established 2003 - A guide to Railway Photographic Locations

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

961 ms

Resources Loaded

964 ms

Page Rendered

207 ms

About Website

Welcome to trainspots.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Trainspots best content right away, or after learning these important things about trainspots.co.uk

Trainspots is the hub of a web network. We are here to help the railway photographer. The idea behind the site is to answer the question -

Visit trainspots.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Trainspots.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 961 ms and then it took 1.2 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

trainspots.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trainspots.co.uk

961 ms

style.css

155 ms

js

61 ms

valid-html40

16 ms

vcss

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Trainspots.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to W3.org and 8% (2 requests) were made to Jigsaw.w3.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (961 ms) belongs to the original domain Trainspots.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 310.3 kB (84%)

Content Size

369.6 kB

After Optimization

59.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Trainspots.co.uk main page is 369.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 356.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 304.4 kB

  • Original 356.4 kB
  • After minification 355.1 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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. 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 304.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Trainspots images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Trainspots.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (67%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Trainspots. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

trainspots.co.uk accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

trainspots.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

trainspots.co.uk SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Trainspots.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Trainspots.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Trainspots. 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: