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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

baystatecruises.com

Provincetown Fast Ferry - Bay State Cruise Company

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

About Website

Welcome to baystatecruises.com homepage info - get ready to check Bay State Cruise S best content right away, or after learning these important things about baystatecruises.com

Provincetown Fast Ferry, Most Departures, Newest Fleet, Easy to Get To, Sailing to Provincetown for over 50 Seasons

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baystatecruises.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baystatecruises.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baystatecruises.com

73 ms

www.baystatecruisecompany.com

242 ms

baystatecruisecompany.com

538 ms

gtm.js

73 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Baystatecruises.com, 83% (24 requests) were made to Baystatecruisecompany.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (538 ms) relates to the external source Baystatecruisecompany.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.0 kB (29%)

Content Size

709.3 kB

After Optimization

503.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Baystatecruises.com main page is 709.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 440.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 11% 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 27.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 440.4 kB
  • After minification 422.9 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. Bay State Cruise S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 131.5 kB

  • Original 195.9 kB
  • After minification 195.2 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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 131.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 36.0 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Baystatecruises.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bay State Cruise S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

baystatecruises.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

baystatecruises.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

baystatecruises.com SEO score

79

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

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 Baystatecruises.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 Baystatecruises.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 data is detected on the main page of Bay State Cruise S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: