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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

cheapflights.com

Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets & Airfares - Find Deals on Flights at Cheapflights.com

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

716 ms

Page Rendered

581 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cheapflights.com homepage info - get ready to check Cheap Flights best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about cheapflights.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cheapflights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.3 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

cheapflights.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cheapflights.com

14 ms

www.cheapflights.com

539 ms

combined.css

15 ms

combined.css

27 ms

polyfillio.js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Cheapflights.com, 79% (11 requests) were made to Content.r9cdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) belongs to the original domain Cheapflights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 226.6 kB (52%)

Content Size

438.1 kB

After Optimization

211.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Cheapflights.com main page is 438.1 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 295.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 226.6 kB

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 295.0 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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 226.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 143.0 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. Cheap Flights images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cheap Flights. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

cheapflights.com

cheapflights.com

14 ms

www.cheapflights.com

www.cheapflights.com

539 ms

combined.css

combined.css

15 ms

combined.css

combined.css

27 ms

polyfillio.js

polyfillio.js

92 ms

combined.js

combined.js

136 ms

combined.js

combined.js

141 ms

context

context

152 ms

frontdoor-cover-photo.jpg

frontdoor-cover-photo.jpg

127 ms

a-small-flag-sprite.png

a-small-flag-sprite.png

132 ms

gibson-regular.ttf

gibson-regular.ttf

130 ms

gibson-regular.ttf

gibson-regular.ttf

130 ms

gibson-semibold.ttf

gibson-semibold.ttf

130 ms

gibson-semibold.ttf

gibson-semibold.ttf

142 ms

Accessibility Review

cheapflights.com accessibility score

69

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cheapflights.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cheapflights.com SEO score

87

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

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 Cheapflights.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 Cheapflights.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

cheapflights.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Cheap Flights. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: