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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

nativesonferry.com

Native Son Ferry | Virgin Islands Ferry Rides, St Thomas, St Croix, BVI

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

648 ms

Page Rendered

517 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Native Son Ferry content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nativesonferry.com

Native Son Ferry is your reliable ferry service between the US and British Virgin Islands. Travel on one of our high-speed vessels in comfort. Book online!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nativesonferry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nativesonferry.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nativesonferry.co

33 ms

www.nativesonferry.co

114 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

29 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

classic-themes.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Nativesonferry.com, 23% (18 requests) were made to Client-assets2.hornblower.com and 15% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (240 ms) relates to the external source My.hornblower.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

494.1 kB

After Optimization

373.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nativesonferry.com main page is 494.1 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. 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. Javascripts take 247.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 100.9 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 114.1 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 100.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 247.4 kB
  • After minification 247.4 kB
  • After compression 238.0 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 125.9 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 116.0 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. Nativesonferry.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (96%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Native Son Ferry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

nativesonferry.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

nativesonferry.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nativesonferry.com SEO score

68

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Nativesonferry.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 Nativesonferry.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 Native Son Ferry. 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: