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23

Performance

Renders faster than
41% of other websites
72

Accessibility

Visual factors better than
that of 37% of websites
75

Best Practices

More advanced features
available than in
35% of websites
81

SEO

Google-friendlier than
43% of websites

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Welcome to railscot.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check RAILSCOT best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about railscot.co.uk

Railscot, a history of Railways with an emphasis on Scottish Railways. Photographs, maps, news, queries and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railscot.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

3/100

10%

railscot.co.uk

203 ms

www.railscot.co.uk

481 ms

bootstrap.min.css

42 ms

jquery-2.2.1.min.js

30 ms

bootstrap.min.js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Railscot.co.uk, 14% (16 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 8% (9 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Railscot.co.uk.

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Railscot.co.uk main page is 5.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 82.8 kB

Original 102.0 kB
After minification 98.0 kB
After compression 19.3 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 82.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

Original 4.6 MB
After minification 4.6 MB

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. RAILSCOT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

Original 515.1 kB
After minification 515.1 kB
After compression 479.3 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 Now

113

After Optimization

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RAILSCOT. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role] values are not valid

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Railscot.co.uk 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 Railscot.co.uk 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

railscot.co.uk

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

RAILSCOT | Home

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)