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railplus.com.au

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Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

747 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railplus.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 747 ms and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railplus.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

railplus.com.au

747 ms

railplus.com.au

1019 ms

www.railplus.com.au

732 ms

www.railplus.com.au

2841 ms

boilerplate-3.0.2.css

726 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Railplus.com.au, 4% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Blog.railplus.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Railplus.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (58%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

954.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Railplus.com.au main page is 2.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 185.1 kB

  • Original 233.4 kB
  • After minification 211.5 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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 185.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 495.3 kB
  • After minification 472.2 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 Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 997.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 410.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 997.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 112.5 kB

  • Original 135.5 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. Railplus.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (50%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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