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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

freightrailworks.org

The Association of American Railroads (AAR)

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

980 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

672 ms

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About Website

Visit freightrailworks.org now to see the best up-to-date Freightrailworks content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about freightrailworks.org

Get the latest information and news about the North American freight rail industry from the AAR, including rail traffic, policy positions and 101 overviews.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freightrailworks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 980 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freightrailworks.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freightrailworks.org

980 ms

style.css

237 ms

css

25 ms

jquery.js

190 ms

flickity.min.js

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Freightrailworks.org, 7% (6 requests) were made to Pixel.mathtag.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Tapestry.tapad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 982.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freightrailworks.org main page is 3.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 128.9 kB

  • Original 166.8 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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 128.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Freightrailworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 661.4 kB

  • Original 976.2 kB
  • After minification 972.8 kB
  • After compression 314.8 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 661.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 119.5 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 99.1 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Freightrailworks.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 119.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (65%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Freightrailworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

freightrailworks.org

freightrailworks.org

980 ms

style.css

style.css

237 ms

css

css

25 ms

jquery.js

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190 ms

flickity.min.js

flickity.min.js

175 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

21 ms

addthis_widget.js

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13 ms

scripts.js

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54 ms

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139 ms

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156 ms

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54 ms

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19 ms

analytics.js

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78 ms

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135 ms

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58 ms

homepage-hero.jpg

homepage-hero.jpg

239 ms

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266 ms

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237 ms

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686 ms

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133 ms

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235 ms

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211 ms

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381 ms

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468 ms

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379 ms

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440 ms

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fbevents.js

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46 ms

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103 ms

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483 ms

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156 ms

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69 ms

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248 ms

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116 ms

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96 ms

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95 ms

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90 ms

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Accessibility Review

freightrailworks.org accessibility score

96

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

freightrailworks.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freightrailworks.org 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freightrailworks.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Freightrailworks.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

freightrailworks.org

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