Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

trade.railstotrails.org

Transportation Alternatives Data Exchange (TrADE) - Rails to Trails Conservancy | Rails to Trails Conservancy

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

trade.railstotrails.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing TrADE Rails To Trails content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about trade.railstotrails.org

RTC's Transportation Alternatives Data Exchange (TrADE) tracks transportation funding data for trails and active transportation projects.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Trade.railstotrails.org page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

trade.railstotrails.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,790 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trade.railstotrails.org

42 ms

54 ms

style.min.css

28 ms

buttons.min.css

31 ms

dashicons.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Trade.railstotrails.org, 56% (55 requests) were made to Railstotrails.org and 7% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (431 ms) relates to the external source Sky.blackbaudcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Trade.railstotrails.org main page is 2.1 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. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 114.3 kB

  • Original 146.2 kB
  • After minification 142.5 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 114.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. TrADE Rails To Trails images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 555.0 kB
  • After minification 552.8 kB
  • After compression 516.4 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 1.2 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 89.6 kB
  • After compression 88.4 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. Trade.railstotrails.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (84%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TrADE Rails To Trails. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

trade.railstotrails.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

trade.railstotrails.org 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

trade.railstotrails.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Trade.railstotrails.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 Trade.railstotrails.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

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