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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cruises.co.za

Spectacular International Cruises | Cruises International

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

603 ms

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

556 ms

cruises.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit cruises.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Cruises content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cruises.co.za

Discover the world with our range of extraordinary international cruises. Explore various destinations in style with Cruises International.

Visit cruises.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Cruises.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 603 ms and then it took 10.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cruises.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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603 ms

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Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Cruises.co.za, 16% (25 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (12 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cruises.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 792.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cruises.co.za main page is 1.8 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 856.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 105.7 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 87.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 856.2 kB
  • After minification 798.1 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. Cruises images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 276.8 kB

  • Original 423.1 kB
  • After minification 294.0 kB
  • After compression 146.3 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 276.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 369.9 kB

  • Original 438.4 kB
  • After minification 438.0 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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. Cruises.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 369.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (59%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cruises. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

cruises.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

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

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

cruises.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

cruises.co.za 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 Cruises.co.za 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 Cruises.co.za 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

cruises.co.za

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