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alaskaairlines.com

Find airline tickets, low airfares, and discount flights | Alaska Airlines

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

779 ms

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About Website

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At Alaska Airlines, we offer low airfare on all airline tickets — including discounted flights to Hawaii and Mexican vacation packages. We bring our love of travel on board with us, so that we can sha...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alaskaairlines.com page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alaskaairlines.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.alaskaair.com

201 ms

201603082206

21 ms

jquery.min.js

127 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

124 ms

asdynamicscript

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Alaskaairlines.com, 23% (12 requests) were made to Alaskaair.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Geoservice.alaskaair.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 498.5 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

872.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Alaskaairlines.com main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 605.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 207.4 kB

  • Original 254.5 kB
  • After minification 210.4 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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 44.2 kB, which is 17% 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 207.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 605.7 kB
  • After minification 586.1 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. Alaska Airlines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 265.3 kB

  • Original 502.2 kB
  • After minification 480.4 kB
  • After compression 236.9 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 265.3 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Alaskaairlines.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (49%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alaska Airlines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Alaskaairlines.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 Alaskaairlines.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 Alaska Airlines. 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: