Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 46

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

msccruises.co.uk

Cruise Holidays - Caribbean, Mediterranean & More | MSC Cruises

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

msccruises.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing MSC Cruises content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about msccruises.co.uk

Official MSC Cruises UK. Explore cruise holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Europe, and worldwide. Manage your booking and excursions online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Msccruises.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

msccruises.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.055

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Homepage.aspx

190 ms

css

95 ms

base.css

38 ms

base2.css

74 ms

jquery.min.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Msccruises.co.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (494 ms) belongs to the original domain Msccruises.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

941.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Msccruises.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 648.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 156.9 kB

  • Original 197.0 kB
  • After minification 183.5 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. 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 156.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 637.8 kB
  • After minification 596.8 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. MSC Cruises images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 407.4 kB

  • Original 648.0 kB
  • After minification 552.3 kB
  • After compression 240.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 407.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 525.0 kB

  • Original 588.5 kB
  • After minification 446.0 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. Msccruises.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 525.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (48%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MSC Cruises. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

msccruises.co.uk accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

msccruises.co.uk best practices score

46

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Uses deprecated APIs

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

msccruises.co.uk SEO score

76

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

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 Msccruises.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 Msccruises.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

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