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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

raileurope.com

Train tickets in Europe - Search & Book on Rail Europe

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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About Website

Welcome to raileurope.com homepage info - get ready to check Rail Europe best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about raileurope.com

➤ Raileurope.com, the easiest way to buy European train & bus tickets online. Check timetables and maps. Low prices, Fast booking & Safe payment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raileurope.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

raileurope.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raileurope.com

148 ms

www.raileurope.com

739 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

41 ms

otSDKStub.js

56 ms

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43 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Raileurope.com, 66% (23 requests) were made to Assets.statics.raileurope.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Uploads.statics.raileurope.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (739 ms) belongs to the original domain Raileurope.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

981.0 kB

After Optimization

653.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Raileurope.com main page is 981.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 412.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 327.5 kB

  • Original 412.5 kB
  • After minification 411.1 kB
  • After compression 85.0 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 327.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 313.6 kB
  • After minification 313.6 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. Rail Europe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 254.9 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 254.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (61%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail Europe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

raileurope.com

raileurope.com

148 ms

www.raileurope.com

www.raileurope.com

739 ms

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OtAutoBlock.js

41 ms

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56 ms

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20 ms

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414 ms

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329 ms

Accessibility Review

raileurope.com accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

raileurope.com 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

raileurope.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

raileurope.com

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