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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

railnorth.org

Strategic Rail | Transport for the North | Rail North - Transport for the North

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

751 ms

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About Website

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

We have secured and are leading two rail franchises TransPennine Express and Northern, marking the start of increased local investment and local control.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railnorth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railnorth.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railnorth.org

10 ms

1245 ms

gtm.js

91 ms

head-1c9c09024aaf5a326eaca1fe870d0199ba0d05ed.css

53 ms

css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Railnorth.org, 36% (12 requests) were made to Transportforthenorth.com and 21% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Transportforthenorth.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

801.8 kB

After Optimization

635.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railnorth.org main page is 801.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 652.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 92.3 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 69.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 652.5 kB
  • After minification 648.0 kB
  • After compression 555.7 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 96.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 228 B

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 57.0 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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. Railnorth.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (79%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

railnorth.org

railnorth.org

10 ms

1245 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

91 ms

head-1c9c09024aaf5a326eaca1fe870d0199ba0d05ed.css

head-1c9c09024aaf5a326eaca1fe870d0199ba0d05ed.css

53 ms

css

css

66 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

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head-34cd68d0095dc55f24988bcc6d04aa2cff8e5a78.js

77 ms

azc4cbd.js

azc4cbd.js

130 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

41 ms

E-v1.js

E-v1.js

63 ms

classic-10_7.css

classic-10_7.css

48 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

77 ms

js

js

103 ms

api.js

api.js

76 ms

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body-6287a431d6bffe4d330658d6dbc03b8f81e46844.js

77 ms

slick.css

slick.css

46 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

47 ms

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60 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

176 ms

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149 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

525 ms

iframeApi.js

iframeApi.js

132 ms

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132 ms

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133 ms

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132 ms

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131 ms

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132 ms

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349009_1_0.woff

432 ms

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349009_4_0.woff

445 ms

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349009_7_0.woff

470 ms

349009_9_0.woff

349009_9_0.woff

41 ms

p.gif

p.gif

26 ms

Accessibility Review

railnorth.org accessibility score

93

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

railnorth.org 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

railnorth.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Railnorth.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 Railnorth.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rail North. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: