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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

scotrail.co.uk

Train Tickets | Times & Timetables | Fares in Scotland | ScotRail

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

scotrail.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to scotrail.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Scot Rail best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about scotrail.co.uk

Buy cheap train tickets & find the best deals on rail fares to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness & the rest of Scotland. ScotRail is operated by Abellio.

Visit scotrail.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Scotrail.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 107 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

scotrail.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,750 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scotrail.co.uk

107 ms

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12 ms

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12 ms

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44 ms

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13 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Scotrail.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Content.announcements.uk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) belongs to the original domain Scotrail.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scotrail.co.uk main page is 3.5 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 131.0 kB
  • After minification 130.9 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 108.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Scot Rail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 724.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 995.3 kB
  • After compression 277.8 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 724.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 495.8 kB

  • Original 584.9 kB
  • After minification 570.3 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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. Scotrail.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 495.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (35%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scot Rail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.scotrail.co.uk

www.scotrail.co.uk

107 ms

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12 ms

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44 ms

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23 ms

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41 ms

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41 ms

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76 ms

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162 ms

gtm.js

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52 ms

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Accessibility Review

scotrail.co.uk accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

scotrail.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

scotrail.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Scotrail.co.uk 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 Scotrail.co.uk 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

scotrail.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scot Rail. 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: