Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ratemystation.com

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Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

401 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ratemystation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ratemystation.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ratemystation.com

116 ms

ratemystation.com

1802 ms

index.css

85 ms

cv.css

130 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (135 requests) were addressed to the original Ratemystation.com, 15% (26 requests) were made to Cdn.captainform.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to App.captainform.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ratemystation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.0 MB (72%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Ratemystation.com main page is 8.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 5.4 MB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.9 MB
  • After compression 603.3 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 5.4 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 917 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Rate My Station images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 454.1 kB

  • Original 822.2 kB
  • After minification 734.0 kB
  • After compression 368.1 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 454.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 142.0 kB

  • Original 449.2 kB
  • After minification 437.2 kB
  • After compression 307.2 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. Ratemystation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 149 (90%)

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rate My Station. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 101 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ratemystation.com 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

ratemystation.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ratemystation.com 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 Ratemystation.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Rate My Station. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: