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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

gvlr.org.uk

GVLR | Golden Valley Light Railway a 2ft narrow gauge railway

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gvlr.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check GVLR best content right away, or after learning these important things about gvlr.org.uk

A 2ft (610mm) narrow gauge railway in mid Derbyshire with ex industrial diesel & steam locomotives, carriages and wagons operating from April to October

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gvlr.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gvlr.org.uk performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gvlr.org.uk

216 ms

www.gvlr.org.uk

198 ms

js

72 ms

gvlrcss.css

98 ms

analytics.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Gvlr.org.uk, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (536 ms) belongs to the original domain Gvlr.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gvlr.org.uk main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 4.2 kB, which is 29% 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 10.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • 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. GVLR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Gvlr.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GVLR. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gvlr.org.uk

gvlr.org.uk

216 ms

www.gvlr.org.uk

www.gvlr.org.uk

198 ms

js

js

72 ms

gvlrcss.css

gvlrcss.css

98 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8 ms

findon_fb.png

findon_fb.png

99 ms

mrt.png

mrt.png

181 ms

utube.png

utube.png

181 ms

coach%20118%2012jul23.jpg

coach%20118%2012jul23.jpg

183 ms

rnad_1020.jpg

rnad_1020.jpg

272 ms

7529_chassis.jpg

7529_chassis.jpg

188 ms

ad34_119_oct17.jpg

ad34_119_oct17.jpg

288 ms

passenger_train_26_08_16.jpg

passenger_train_26_08_16.jpg

357 ms

tubby-0416.jpg

tubby-0416.jpg

359 ms

wheelseta.jpg

wheelseta.jpg

274 ms

ok-newlands-0222.jpg

ok-newlands-0222.jpg

466 ms

leak%20and%20manifold.jpg

leak%20and%20manifold.jpg

458 ms

stockbook.jpg

stockbook.jpg

455 ms

ok-steamup-0222.jpg

ok-steamup-0222.jpg

403 ms

alr_book_gratton_band.jpg

alr_book_gratton_band.jpg

536 ms

guidebook.jpg

guidebook.jpg

450 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

Accessibility Review

gvlr.org.uk accessibility score

94

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

gvlr.org.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gvlr.org.uk SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Gvlr.org.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 Gvlr.org.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

gvlr.org.uk

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