Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

networkwestmidlands.com

Transport for West Midlands | Journey planning, tickets and help

Page Load Speed

747 ms in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

467 ms

Page Rendered

73 ms

networkwestmidlands.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to networkwestmidlands.com homepage info - get ready to check Network West Midlands best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about networkwestmidlands.com

Public transport information for bus, train, tram, e-scootering, cycling, walking and driving around the West Midlands.

Visit networkwestmidlands.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Networkwestmidlands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 540 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

networkwestmidlands.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

networkwestmidlands.com

207 ms

iisstart.png

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Networkwestmidlands.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (259 ms) belongs to the original domain Networkwestmidlands.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

100.4 kB

After Optimization

83.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Networkwestmidlands.com main page is 100.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 99.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 219 B

  • Original 666 B
  • After minification 665 B
  • After compression 447 B

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 219 B or 33% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 83.2 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. Obviously, Network West Midlands needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Network West Midlands. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

networkwestmidlands.com accessibility score

91

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

Best Practices

networkwestmidlands.com 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

networkwestmidlands.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Networkwestmidlands.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 Networkwestmidlands.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Network West Midlands. 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: