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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

boards.cruisecritic.com

Cruise Critic Message Board Forums: Ask a Question - Cruise Critic

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

793 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boards.cruisecritic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 793 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boards.cruisecritic.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boards.cruisecritic.com

793 ms

tPixel.js

13 ms

972984230.js

202 ms

vbulletin_important.css

53 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Boards.cruisecritic.com, 8% (7 requests) were made to Cruisecritic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) belongs to the original domain Boards.cruisecritic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boards.cruisecritic.com main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 254.5 kB

  • Original 325.4 kB
  • After minification 316.0 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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 254.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 996.9 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. Board S Cruise Critic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 390.8 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 1.1 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Boards.cruisecritic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (60%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Board S Cruise Critic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

boards.cruisecritic.com

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13 ms

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202 ms

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53 ms

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83 ms

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83 ms

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Accessibility Review

boards.cruisecritic.com accessibility score

95

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

boards.cruisecritic.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

boards.cruisecritic.com SEO score

94

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boards.cruisecritic.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 Boards.cruisecritic.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

boards.cruisecritic.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Board S Cruise Critic. 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: