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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

global.flixbus.com

FlixBus: Convenient and affordable bus travel in the US

Page Load Speed

499 ms in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

326 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Global.flixbus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 491 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

global.flixbus.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

global.flixbus.com

8 ms

www.flixbus.com

20 ms

abTestHandler.a9f2f1.js

46 ms

cc.js

211 ms

honeycomb-fonts.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Global.flixbus.com, 33% (7 requests) were made to Cdn-cf.cms.flixbus.com and 33% (7 requests) were made to Honeycomb.flixbus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (211 ms) relates to the external source Flixbus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

354.3 kB

After Optimization

249.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Global.flixbus.com main page is 354.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 120.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 116.5 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 32.4 kB, which is 28% 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 102.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 99.6 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. Global Flix Bus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 120.1 kB
  • After compression 120.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 284 B

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Global.flixbus.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Flix Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

global.flixbus.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

global.flixbus.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

global.flixbus.com SEO score

83

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

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 Global.flixbus.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 Global.flixbus.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 Global Flix Bus. 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: