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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    65% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    62% of websites

virgintrains.co.uk

Official site | Virgin

Page Load Speed

66.5 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

51.5 sec

Page Rendered

13.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virgintrains.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 65.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virgintrains.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.virgintrains.co.uk

1422 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

936 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

860 ms

css

1618 ms

bundle

1446 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Virgintrains.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to C.webtrends.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.2 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virgintrains.co.uk main page is 3.4 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. 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 176.1 kB

  • Original 197.2 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 71.3 kB, which is 36% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 176.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 95.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Virgin Trains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 897.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 400.7 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 897.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 222.2 kB

  • Original 267.2 kB
  • After minification 267.1 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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. Virgintrains.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 222.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (48%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgin Trains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.virgintrains.co.uk

www.virgintrains.co.uk

1422 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

936 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

860 ms

css

css

1618 ms

bundle

bundle

1446 ms

jquery

jquery

1544 ms

dynamicCss-4a3ac149-7d46-447c-b785-f41257164ee1-636396145337116714-web-Default.min.css

dynamicCss-4a3ac149-7d46-447c-b785-f41257164ee1-636396145337116714-web-Default.min.css

1445 ms

vt-jp.min.css

vt-jp.min.css

1541 ms

commonHeadScripts

commonHeadScripts

1532 ms

jsapi

jsapi

1393 ms

wt.js

wt.js

4987 ms

_get_synthetix.js

_get_synthetix.js

5051 ms

scripts

scripts

4710 ms

additional-scripts

additional-scripts

4646 ms

dynamic-scripts-%7B4a3ac149-7d46-447c-b785-f41257164ee1%7D-browser32

dynamic-scripts-%7B4a3ac149-7d46-447c-b785-f41257164ee1%7D-browser32

4709 ms

initializeModules.min.js

initializeModules.min.js

4507 ms

api.js

api.js

1078 ms

jp

jp

4507 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

859 ms

p_code.js

p_code.js

637 ms

prum.min.js

prum.min.js

5466 ms

common.js

common.js

1841 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

5322 ms

alerts-icon.png

alerts-icon.png

2185 ms

s78108710004016

s78108710004016

3137 ms

vt-logo.png

vt-logo.png

3136 ms

x.png

x.png

3136 ms

basket-icon-black.png

basket-icon-black.png

3167 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

3100 ms

hp-qtt-vt-river-drinks-1272x616.ashx

hp-qtt-vt-river-drinks-1272x616.ashx

3446 ms

bg_fix_for_input_overlay.png

bg_fix_for_input_overlay.png

3446 ms

man-icon.ashx

man-icon.ashx

3541 ms

pig-icon.ashx

pig-icon.ashx

3448 ms

cards-icon.ashx

cards-icon.ashx

3448 ms

close.png

close.png

3395 ms

accept-icon.png

accept-icon.png

3395 ms

alerts-icon.png

alerts-icon.png

3395 ms

newsletter-icon.png

newsletter-icon.png

3490 ms

chevron.png

chevron.png

3487 ms

grey_0065_dark_grey_0035_awesome.ashx

grey_0065_dark_grey_0035_awesome.ashx

3488 ms

grey_0044_family.ashx

grey_0044_family.ashx

3489 ms

grey_0010_routesstations.ashx

grey_0010_routesstations.ashx

3306 ms

grey_0001_escape.ashx

grey_0001_escape.ashx

3306 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

3131 ms

NeoSans.woff

NeoSans.woff

321 ms

NeoSans-Light.woff

NeoSans-Light.woff

321 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

87 ms

7550 ms

ga.js

ga.js

1260 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

8609 ms

hotjar-447122.js

hotjar-447122.js

8908 ms

code.js

code.js

10029 ms

inpage_linkid.js

inpage_linkid.js

17216 ms

_script.js

_script.js

16226 ms

GetStation

GetStation

12737 ms

GetAllQttStations

GetAllQttStations

12094 ms

GetJourneyCheckStations

GetJourneyCheckStations

2814 ms

family-ticket-deckchairs-424x273.ashx

family-ticket-deckchairs-424x273.ashx

1079 ms

third_426x273_150424_1368.ashx

third_426x273_150424_1368.ashx

1079 ms

ticket-boy.ashx

ticket-boy.ashx

1079 ms

builder.ashx

builder.ashx

1477 ms

eggs.ashx

eggs.ashx

1431 ms

homepage_delayrepay_clock424x273_compressed.ashx

homepage_delayrepay_clock424x273_compressed.ashx

1415 ms

iconacceptpng.ashx

iconacceptpng.ashx

1267 ms

B9119310.123673768;sz=1x2;ord=301560763

B9119310.123673768;sz=1x2;ord=301560763

6302 ms

Accessibility Review

virgintrains.co.uk accessibility score

76

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.

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

virgintrains.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

virgintrains.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Virgintrains.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 Virgintrains.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

virgintrains.co.uk

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