Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

lightrailnow.org

Light Rail Now - light rail transit (LRT), trams, tramways, streetcars, rail transit

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

959 ms

Page Rendered

839 ms

lightrailnow.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lightrailnow.org page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lightrailnow.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lightrailnow.org

316 ms

layout.css

98 ms

clearpixel.gif

101 ms

donate-icon.jpg

101 ms

nav-01.gif

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Lightrailnow.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (567 ms) belongs to the original domain Lightrailnow.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Lightrailnow.org main page is 2.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.5 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 88.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Light Rail Now images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 155 B
  • After minification 130 B
  • After compression 114 B

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. Lightrailnow.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41 B or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (18%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Light Rail Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lightrailnow.org accessibility score

68

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

lightrailnow.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lightrailnow.org SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 Lightrailnow.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Lightrailnow.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

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