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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

railsnw.com

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Railsnw.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

railsnw.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

railsnw.com

168 ms

railsnw.com

273 ms

style.css

36 ms

arc90_linkthumb.js

276 ms

quant.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Railsnw.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ultra1.clickchatsold.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (330 ms) relates to the external source Vmss.boldchat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

248.1 kB

After Optimization

157.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Railsnw.com main page is 248.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 111.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 41.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 667 B

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 110.3 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. RailsNW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 85.4 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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 47.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 715 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Railsnw.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 715 B or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RailsNW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

railsnw.com

railsnw.com

168 ms

railsnw.com

railsnw.com

273 ms

style.css

style.css

36 ms

arc90_linkthumb.js

arc90_linkthumb.js

276 ms

quant.js

quant.js

8 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

15 ms

RailsNW3.js

RailsNW3.js

50 ms

mlt.js

mlt.js

187 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

6 ms

RailsNW3.js

RailsNW3.js

266 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

clearpixel.gif

clearpixel.gif

39 ms

separator.gif

separator.gif

65 ms

email5_trans.gif

email5_trans.gif

96 ms

railsnw_singupbutton.jpg

railsnw_singupbutton.jpg

174 ms

topcheckout.gif

topcheckout.gif

204 ms

railsnw_alltrains021.jpg

railsnw_alltrains021.jpg

236 ms

canadaflag001.jpg

canadaflag001.jpg

206 ms

mexicoflag.jpg

mexicoflag.jpg

204 ms

usaflag001.jpg

usaflag001.jpg

204 ms

africa_trainpic_main.jpg

africa_trainpic_main.jpg

206 ms

vsoe_maintop001_2.jpg

vsoe_maintop001_2.jpg

263 ms

railsnw_top_main.jpg

railsnw_top_main.jpg

252 ms

topleft_banner3.gif

topleft_banner3.gif

223 ms

topleft_banner3b.gif

topleft_banner3b.gif

225 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

cellbg01.jpg

cellbg01.jpg

201 ms

vms.js

vms.js

330 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

js

js

61 ms

Accessibility Review

railsnw.com accessibility score

51

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

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

railsnw.com best practices score

42

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

railsnw.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

railsnw.com

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