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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

railswest.com

RailsWest.com Interpreting Tracks, Trains and People in the American West

Page Load Speed

624 ms in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

279 ms

Page Rendered

273 ms

railswest.com screenshot

About Website

Visit railswest.com now to see the best up-to-date Rails West content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about railswest.com

Rails West is a website for interpreters and teachers of history, particularly the history and technology of railroads and transportation in California and Nevada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railswest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 552 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

railswest.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 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)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railswest.com

72 ms

rwstyle.css

74 ms

menus.css

57 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

81 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Railswest.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Free.timeanddate.com and 6% (1 request) were made to C.tadst.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (81 ms) belongs to the original domain Railswest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

418.6 kB

After Optimization

332.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railswest.com main page is 418.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 313.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 13.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 313.2 kB
  • After minification 300.1 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. Rails West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 77.0 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 51.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Railswest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rails West. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

railswest.com

railswest.com

72 ms

rwstyle.css

rwstyle.css

74 ms

menus.css

menus.css

57 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

81 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

jquery.hoverIntent.js

55 ms

script.js

script.js

75 ms

hsr4

hsr4

62 ms

linnen2.jpg

linnen2.jpg

27 ms

bgStrip.png

bgStrip.png

19 ms

parchmentbg.jpg

parchmentbg.jpg

20 ms

railswestherald.gif

railswestherald.gif

26 ms

ATSF37510086cs.jpg

ATSF37510086cs.jpg

44 ms

VC2Mid_rbc.jpg

VC2Mid_rbc.jpg

56 ms

lary665rb_0724c.jpg

lary665rb_0724c.jpg

72 ms

dnelogo200.gif

dnelogo200.gif

36 ms

mcplogo52.jpg

mcplogo52.jpg

50 ms

bottom.png

bottom.png

44 ms

logo-2021--vertical-color-whitebg.svg

logo-2021--vertical-color-whitebg.svg

56 ms

Accessibility Review

railswest.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

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

railswest.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

railswest.com SEO score

75

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 Railswest.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 Railswest.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

railswest.com

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