Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

eu.rail.cc

Train tickets and train travel information | railcc

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

672 ms

eu.rail.cc screenshot

About Website

Visit eu.rail.cc now to see the best up-to-date Eu Rail content for Germany and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about eu.rail.cc

The rail travel community. How to buy cheap train tickets. Interrail and Eurail pass information. Find prices and search for scenic travel routes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eu.rail.cc page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eu.rail.cc performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eu.rail.cc

228 ms

rail.cc

603 ms

js

53 ms

bootstrap.min.css

112 ms

main.css

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eu.rail.cc, 76% (41 requests) were made to Rail.cc and 7% (4 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (768 ms) relates to the external source Rail.cc.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.1 kB (56%)

Content Size

930.8 kB

After Optimization

405.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Eu.rail.cc main page is 930.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 483.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.3 kB, which is 18% 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 57.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 217.6 kB
  • After minification 208.5 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. Eu Rail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 337.8 kB

  • Original 483.4 kB
  • After minification 479.3 kB
  • After compression 145.6 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 337.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 156.0 kB
  • After minification 156.0 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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. Eu.rail.cc needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (38%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eu 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eu.rail.cc accessibility score

77

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

eu.rail.cc best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

eu.rail.cc SEO score

92

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

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

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 Eu.rail.cc 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 Eu.rail.cc 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 Eu 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: