Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

railmaps.com.au

Australian Rail Maps

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

908 ms

Page Rendered

294 ms

railmaps.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to railmaps.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Rail Maps best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about railmaps.com.au

Plan your Australian train, tram, bus and ferry travel with our easy-to-use maps and online timetables. Every train in Australia from suburban trips to luxury trans-continental journeys of a lifetime.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railmaps.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railmaps.com.au performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railmaps.com.au

156 ms

austrail.css

28 ms

adsbygoogle.js

8 ms

external_portfolio.js

64 ms

armicon_black.gif

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Railmaps.com.au, 13% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 10% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

686.3 kB

After Optimization

503.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Railmaps.com.au main page is 686.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 545.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 20.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 88.0 kB

  • Original 545.0 kB
  • After minification 457.0 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. Obviously, Rail Maps needs image optimization as it can save up to 88.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 78.4 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 41.9 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Railmaps.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (52%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail Maps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

railmaps.com.au accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

railmaps.com.au 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

railmaps.com.au SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Railmaps.com.au 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 Railmaps.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Rail Maps. 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: