Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

customtrains.org

Custom Trains: Andy Fletcher Railroad Art: Steam, Diesel & Electric, Posters, Magnets, Matted Prints, History Blog

Page Load Speed

678 ms in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

509 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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About Website

Visit customtrains.org now to see the best up-to-date Custom Trains content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about customtrains.org

Custom Trains features the railroad artwork of artist Andy Fletcher. See Andy's posters, magnets, matted prints, and read his blog about railroads across North America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Customtrains.org page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 612 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

customtrains.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.customtrains.org

66 ms

site.css

30 ms

duel.js

20 ms

scc-c2.min.js

23 ms

jq.js

316 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Customtrains.org, 91% (85 requests) were made to Nebula.wsimg.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to P3pprd001.cloudstorage.secureserver.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (316 ms) relates to the external source P3pprd001.cloudstorage.secureserver.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (36%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Customtrains.org main page is 7.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 114.3 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 95.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Obviously, Custom Trains needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.3 MB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 173.2 kB

  • Original 243.8 kB
  • After minification 243.7 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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 173.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Customtrains.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (5%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

87

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Custom Trains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

customtrains.org accessibility score

66

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

customtrains.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

customtrains.org SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Customtrains.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 Customtrains.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 data is detected on the main page of Custom Trains. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: