Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

633 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

7.3 sec

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About Website

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Based in North Carolina and we are trying to bring the past back to the rail fans and railroad hobby. Items of interest for the railway enthusiast or railway buff young and old.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastcoastrailroads.com page load time and found that the first response time was 633 ms and then it took 13.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eastcoastrailroads.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

eastcoastrailroads.com

633 ms

coolstyle.css

84 ms

mouseover.js

104 ms

javascripts.js

102 ms

swfobject_modified.js

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Eastcoastrailroads.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Eastcoastrailroads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.0 kB (39%)

Content Size

402.1 kB

After Optimization

247.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Eastcoastrailroads.com main page is 402.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 189.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 18.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 174.8 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. Eastcoastrailroads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 125.6 kB

  • Original 189.6 kB
  • After minification 162.9 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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 125.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Eastcoastrailroads.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (24%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eastcoastrailroads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

eastcoastrailroads.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    LA

  • 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 Eastcoastrailroads.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latin 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 Eastcoastrailroads.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

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