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channelferries.co.uk

Cheap Ferry Tickets & Cross Channel Ferries

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Channelferries.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

channelferries.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

channelferries.co.uk

251 ms

www.channelferries.co.uk

254 ms

main.css

82 ms

functions.js

158 ms

channel-ferries-logo.jpg

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Channelferries.co.uk, 30% (9 requests) were made to Aferry.co.uk and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Aferry.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 279.7 kB (68%)

Content Size

413.9 kB

After Optimization

134.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Channelferries.co.uk main page is 413.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 250.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. 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 12.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 124.1 kB
  • After minification 79.7 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. Obviously, Channel Ferries needs image optimization as it can save up to 44.5 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 202.5 kB

  • Original 250.4 kB
  • After minification 218.9 kB
  • After compression 47.8 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 202.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Channelferries.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (14%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Channel 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

channelferries.co.uk

channelferries.co.uk

251 ms

www.channelferries.co.uk

www.channelferries.co.uk

254 ms

main.css

main.css

82 ms

functions.js

functions.js

158 ms

channel-ferries-logo.jpg

channel-ferries-logo.jpg

237 ms

route-map-button2.gif

route-map-button2.gif

164 ms

top-bar-bg.jpg

top-bar-bg.jpg

160 ms

nav-bar-bg.jpg

nav-bar-bg.jpg

231 ms

strap.jpg

strap.jpg

230 ms

alaska-ferry.jpg

alaska-ferry.jpg

355 ms

ferry-button.gif

ferry-button.gif

156 ms

blue-more-info-button.gif

blue-more-info-button.gif

233 ms

routes-button.gif

routes-button.gif

544 ms

port-button.gif

port-button.gif

341 ms

eurotunnel-button.gif

eurotunnel-button.gif

475 ms

operator-logos-h.gif

operator-logos-h.gif

485 ms

ferry-icon.gif

ferry-icon.gif

608 ms

book1.asp

book1.asp

410 ms

AFRYminiengine.asp

AFRYminiengine.asp

868 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

column-bg.gif

column-bg.gif

663 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

597 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

home.asp

home.asp

1435 ms

routeIncludeGBP.js

routeIncludeGBP.js

361 ms

AFRYstylesheetFSA729.css

AFRYstylesheetFSA729.css

126 ms

DisplayPage1.js

DisplayPage1.js

135 ms

view_window.js

view_window.js

185 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

177 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

154 ms

SEO Factors

channelferries.co.uk SEO score

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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 Channelferries.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 Channelferries.co.uk 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

channelferries.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Channel Ferries. 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: