Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cathaypacific.aero

Cathay Pacific | Book flights & elevate your life

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cathaypacific.aero page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cathaypacific.aero performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

en_US.html

96 ms

queueclient.min.js

369 ms

queueconfigloader.min.js

370 ms

clientlib-homepage.min.ea27d95cc3c9ec942c2724758d5aede7.css

230 ms

fonts.css

983 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cathaypacific.aero, 5% (5 requests) were made to Assets.cathaypacific.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Api.cathaypacific.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Api.cathaypacific.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 424.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

931.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Cathaypacific.aero main page is 1.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 824.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 285.9 kB

  • Original 325.6 kB
  • After minification 250.7 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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 74.9 kB, which is 23% 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 285.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 824.1 kB
  • After minification 798.2 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. Cathay Pacific images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 206.4 kB
  • After minification 205.6 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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 112.8 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 561 B
  • After minification 561 B
  • After compression 408 B

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. Cathaypacific.aero needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (12%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cathay Pacific. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cathaypacific.aero accessibility score

68

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

cathaypacific.aero 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cathaypacific.aero SEO score

83

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 Cathaypacific.aero 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 Cathaypacific.aero 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 Cathay Pacific. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: