Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

railprofessional.com

Rail Professional Asia Pacific - Business Magazine for Railway Industry

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

479 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

railprofessional.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railprofessional.com page load time and found that the first response time was 479 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railprofessional.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,050 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.railprofessional.com

479 ms

autoptimize_single_80da316c05290447d45a81e410319c01.css

448 ms

autoptimize_single_5343ee1a287a65ff20961476fd8a6188.css

369 ms

font-awesome.min.css

19 ms

autoptimize_single_a7468361b0af4bf9bb5b974c271c2cb8.css

431 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Railprofessional.com, 27% (24 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Railprofessional.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

985.2 kB

After Optimization

796.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Railprofessional.com main page is 985.2 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. Images take 544.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 101.5 kB

  • Original 121.2 kB
  • After minification 121.2 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 101.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 544.4 kB
  • After minification 539.2 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 Professional images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 261.9 kB
  • After minification 240.0 kB
  • After compression 184.6 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. Railprofessional.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (54%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rail Professional. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

railprofessional.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

railprofessional.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

railprofessional.com SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Railprofessional.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 Railprofessional.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

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