Access lightrailnow.org. Light Rail Now - light rail transit (LRT), trams, tramways, streetcars, rail transit

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value

score

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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%

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.

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 Now

After Optimization

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 Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

High

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

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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

lightrailnow.org

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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

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

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

lightrailnow.org

layout.css

clearpixel.gif

donate-icon.jpg

nav-01.gif

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

lightrailnow.org

layout.css

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donate-icon.jpg

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