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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cruisechicago.com

Chicago River Cruise Tour

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

943 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

About Website

Visit cruisechicago.com now to see the best up-to-date Cruise Chicago content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cruisechicago.com

Experience Chicago's finest fleet of cruising vessels. Enjoy educational tours, cocktails, lakefront dining, & unmatched skyline views. Book your cruise today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cruisechicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cruisechicago.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cruisechicago.com

94 ms

www.cruisechicago.com

312 ms

fonts.css

65 ms

hcd8oqq.css

115 ms

yxl7oue.css

223 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Cruisechicago.com, 16% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) belongs to the original domain Cruisechicago.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.9 kB (0%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cruisechicago.com main page is 6.3 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. 80% 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. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 20.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Cruise Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. Cruisechicago.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (30%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cruise Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cruisechicago.com accessibility score

85

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cruisechicago.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cruisechicago.com SEO score

77

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 Cruisechicago.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 Cruisechicago.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 Cruise Chicago. 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: