Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

princesscruises.com

Cruises – Cruise Vacations – Find Best Cruises - Princess Cruises

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

princesscruises.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Princesscruises.com page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 6.4 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

princesscruises.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

princesscruises.com

228 ms

www.princess.com

129 ms

princess.combined.css

23 ms

responsive_header_footer.css

7 ms

promo-block.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Princesscruises.com, 22% (41 requests) were made to Princess.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to Servedby.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Servedby.flashtalking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (38%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Princesscruises.com main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 133.7 kB
  • After minification 125.4 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 110.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Princess Cruises images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 768.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 401.2 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 768.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 214.7 kB

  • Original 432.1 kB
  • After minification 427.4 kB
  • After compression 217.5 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. Princesscruises.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 214.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 116 (73%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Princess 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

princesscruises.com accessibility score

90

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

Best Practices

princesscruises.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

princesscruises.com SEO score

82

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

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 Princesscruises.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 Princesscruises.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 description is not detected on the main page of Princess Cruises. 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: