Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

international-rail.com

Train Reservation - Train tickets booking online at International Rail

Page Load Speed

43.8 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

43.6 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

international-rail.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed International-rail.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 43.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

international-rail.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

international-rail.com

34 ms

www.internationalrail.com

8099 ms

bootstrap.min.css

4170 ms

font-awesome.min.css

4609 ms

internationalrail.css

4694 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original International-rail.com, 53% (30 requests) were made to Internationalrail.com and 32% (18 requests) were made to 1track.internationalrail.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.7 sec) relates to the external source Internationalrail.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 595.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of International-rail.com main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 242.4 kB

  • Original 305.2 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 62.8 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 90.6 kB, which is 30% 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 242.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. International Rail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 197.1 kB
  • After compression 165.1 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 32.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 280.3 kB

  • Original 351.8 kB
  • After minification 307.8 kB
  • After compression 71.5 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. International-rail.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 280.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (45%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of International Rail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

international-rail.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

international-rail.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

international-rail.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise International-rail.com 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 International-rail.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 International Rail. 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: