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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

alaskaferryvacations.com

Viking Travel Inc. / AlaskaFerry.com | Alaska Ferry Bookings and Custom Alaska Tours | Petersburg, Alaska

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

321 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alaskaferryvacations.com page load time and found that the first response time was 321 ms and then it took 3.5 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

alaskaferryvacations.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alaskaferryvacations.com

321 ms

colortheme.css

97 ms

javascripts.js

192 ms

pop-closeup.js

195 ms

header.js

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Alaskaferryvacations.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Schedules.alaskaferry.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Schedules.alaskaferry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alaskaferryvacations.com main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 17.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Alaska Ferry Vacations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 73.9 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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 46.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.6 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 113.5 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Alaskaferryvacations.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (50%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alaska Ferry Vacations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alaskaferryvacations.com

alaskaferryvacations.com

321 ms

colortheme.css

colortheme.css

97 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

192 ms

pop-closeup.js

pop-closeup.js

195 ms

header.js

header.js

194 ms

menu.js

menu.js

196 ms

copyright.js

copyright.js

190 ms

copyright-allwebco.js

copyright-allwebco.js

184 ms

gray.css

gray.css

188 ms

gray-menu.css

gray-menu.css

196 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

151 ms

untitled2_170.jpg

untitled2_170.jpg

161 ms

untitled_170.jpg

untitled_170.jpg

166 ms

Icy_Wonder_Tour_199_170.jpg

Icy_Wonder_Tour_199_170.jpg

162 ms

PolarBearThumb_199_170.jpg

PolarBearThumb_199_170.jpg

163 ms

Eagles_195_170.jpg

Eagles_195_170.jpg

160 ms

FerryCoverHoriz_200.jpg

FerryCoverHoriz_200.jpg

1082 ms

Girl_Horiz_200.jpg

Girl_Horiz_200.jpg

303 ms

Make_Payment.jpeg

Make_Payment.jpeg

184 ms

Gift_Certificates.jpeg

Gift_Certificates.jpeg

219 ms

Facebook-Pinterest-Twitter_160.jpg

Facebook-Pinterest-Twitter_160.jpg

364 ms

New_Reservation_Center.jpg

New_Reservation_Center.jpg

1355 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

230 ms

starbackground-1.jpg

starbackground-1.jpg

403 ms

schedules.alaskaferry.com

schedules.alaskaferry.com

1751 ms

SS_Image1.jpg

SS_Image1.jpg

588 ms

SS_Image2.jpg

SS_Image2.jpg

530 ms

SS_Image3.jpg

SS_Image3.jpg

895 ms

SS_Image4.jpg

SS_Image4.jpg

1198 ms

bar.jpg

bar.jpg

708 ms

background-sidebar.gif

background-sidebar.gif

710 ms

shadow-vertical.gif

shadow-vertical.gif

817 ms

corner-left.gif

corner-left.gif

841 ms

shadow-horizontal.gif

shadow-horizontal.gif

919 ms

corner-right.gif

corner-right.gif

942 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

136 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

modernizr

modernizr

385 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

209 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

293 ms

Site2.css

Site2.css

422 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

52 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.js

bootstrap-datepicker.js

455 ms

alaskaFerry2.js

alaskaFerry2.js

131 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

170 ms

Accessibility Review

alaskaferryvacations.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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

alaskaferryvacations.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alaskaferryvacations.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alaskaferryvacations.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 Alaskaferryvacations.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alaskaferryvacations.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alaska Ferry Vacations. 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: