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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

railpictures.ca

Railpictures.ca - Great Canadian Railway Photography - Click here for tens of thousands of Canadian railway photographs, discussions, news, and more

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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About Website

Visit railpictures.ca now to see the best up-to-date Railpictures content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about railpictures.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railpictures.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railpictures.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railpictures.ca

4004 ms

style.css

49 ms

thickbox.css

53 ms

bwbps.css

54 ms

rating.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Railpictures.ca, 11% (9 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Railpictures.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 549.9 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

837.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railpictures.ca main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 646.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 83.3 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 63.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 299.1 kB

  • Original 618.7 kB
  • After minification 319.5 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, Railpictures needs image optimization as it can save up to 299.1 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 646.5 kB
  • After minification 616.1 kB
  • After compression 489.6 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 157.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Railpictures.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (50%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Railpictures. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

railpictures.ca

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Accessibility Review

railpictures.ca accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

railpictures.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

railpictures.ca SEO score

71

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

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 Railpictures.ca 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 Railpictures.ca 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

railpictures.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Railpictures. 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: