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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

railwayforum.net

Railway Forum - Railway and Train Enthusiasts Community

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Railway Forum content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about railwayforum.net

Railway Forum is the forum and discussion board for all things to do with railways and locomotives, providing a friendly community, advanced discussion board, gallery and more for your use.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railwayforum.net page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railwayforum.net performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railwayforum.net

59 ms

railwayforum.net

282 ms

www.railwayforum.net

36 ms

www.railwayforum.net

577 ms

js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Railwayforum.net, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (621 ms) belongs to the original domain Railwayforum.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

233.3 kB

After Optimization

183.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railwayforum.net main page is 233.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 126.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 55.1 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. 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 46.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 46.8 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. Railway Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 742 B

  • Original 126.1 kB
  • After minification 126.1 kB
  • After compression 125.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Railwayforum.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Railway Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

railwayforum.net

railwayforum.net

59 ms

railwayforum.net

railwayforum.net

282 ms

www.railwayforum.net

www.railwayforum.net

36 ms

www.railwayforum.net

www.railwayforum.net

577 ms

js

js

67 ms

style-85f3d738-00001.css

style-85f3d738-00001.css

24 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

27 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

24 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

25 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

34 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

35 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

63 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

40 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

39 ms

header_background.jpg

header_background.jpg

26 ms

trains.jpg

trains.jpg

27 ms

logo.png

logo.png

28 ms

gradient_tcat.gif

gradient_tcat.gif

25 ms

wol_error.gif

wol_error.gif

24 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

26 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

27 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

259 ms

whos_online.gif

whos_online.gif

260 ms

forum_link.gif

forum_link.gif

259 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

286 ms

dsci0076_thumb.jpg

dsci0076_thumb.jpg

293 ms

123585_thumb.jpg

123585_thumb.jpg

376 ms

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dd128756_thumb.jpg

519 ms

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5910_ardglen_5_july_1998_for_forum_thumb.jpg

513 ms

forum_old.gif

forum_old.gif

271 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

285 ms

icon2.gif

icon2.gif

524 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

298 ms

forum_old_lock.gif

forum_old_lock.gif

540 ms

cron.php

cron.php

621 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

54 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

362 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

371 ms

loader.min.js

loader.min.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

railwayforum.net accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

railwayforum.net best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

railwayforum.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Railwayforum.net 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 Railwayforum.net 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

railwayforum.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Railway Forum. 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: