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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

transmancheferries.co.uk

Book ferry tickets from the UK | Passenger Ferries | DFDS

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

769 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

About Website

Visit transmancheferries.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Transmanche Ferries content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about transmancheferries.co.uk

DFDS is a World Leading ferry operator, providing ferry travel across Europe to destinations including France and Holland. Our prices start from £35pp!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Transmancheferries.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 769 ms and then it took 2.2 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

transmancheferries.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,340 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

passenger-ferries

769 ms

gtm.js

156 ms

j.php

72 ms

dfds_logo.svg

28 ms

Couple_on_deck_of_a_DFDS_ferry.jpg

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Transmancheferries.co.uk, 44% (21 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (769 ms) relates to the external source Dfds.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Transmancheferries.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 161.5 kB

  • Original 200.9 kB
  • After minification 200.9 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 161.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Transmanche Ferries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 937 B

  • Original 519.0 kB
  • After minification 519.0 kB
  • After compression 518.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (53%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transmanche Ferries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

transmancheferries.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

transmancheferries.co.uk 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

transmancheferries.co.uk SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Transmancheferries.co.uk 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 Transmancheferries.co.uk 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 Transmanche Ferries. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: