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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

illinoistractionsociety.org

Illinois Traction Society - "The" Society for Illinois Terminal History

Page Load Speed

879 ms in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

511 ms

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

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The Illinois Traction Society is a railfan group interested in preserving the history of the Illinois Terminal Railroad and its predecessors. The Society's primary focus is the electrified lines of th...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinoistractionsociety.org page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 674 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

illinoistractionsociety.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

illinoistractionsociety.org

205 ms

Sitemap.html

85 ms

Home.html

129 ms

awstats_misc_tracker.js

62 ms

ITSHome1a.jpg

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Illinoistractionsociety.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (205 ms) belongs to the original domain Illinoistractionsociety.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

68.6 kB

After Optimization

63.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Illinoistractionsociety.org main page is 68.6 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 64.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 2.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 61.6 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. Illinois Traction Society images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois Traction Society. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

illinoistractionsociety.org

illinoistractionsociety.org

205 ms

Sitemap.html

Sitemap.html

85 ms

Home.html

Home.html

129 ms

awstats_misc_tracker.js

awstats_misc_tracker.js

62 ms

ITSHome1a.jpg

ITSHome1a.jpg

82 ms

ITS_logo_cs.gif

ITS_logo_cs.gif

117 ms

home2.jpg

home2.jpg

175 ms

ITC_logo.jpg

ITC_logo.jpg

177 ms

BisCarLogos.gif

BisCarLogos.gif

139 ms

Accessibility Review

illinoistractionsociety.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

illinoistractionsociety.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

illinoistractionsociety.org SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Illinoistractionsociety.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 Illinoistractionsociety.org 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

illinoistractionsociety.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Illinois Traction Society. 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: