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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cruisethewest.com

Cruise the West - West Coast Cruise Ports Association

Page Load Speed

389 ms in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

226 ms

Page Rendered

105 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the nine ports of Cruise the West - a partnership of West Coast ports promoting the spectacular sights, eclectic adventures, and cultural experiences of the west coast of North America. Str...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cruisethewest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 331 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cruisethewest.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cruisethewest.com

58 ms

styles.1.0.1.css

27 ms

ga.js

9 ms

CTWlogo.jpg

38 ms

m_ports.png

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Cruisethewest.com, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (137 ms) belongs to the original domain Cruisethewest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

210.0 kB

After Optimization

207.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cruisethewest.com main page is 210.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 187.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 2.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 187.8 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. Cruise The West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 78 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Cruisethewest.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cruise The West. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

cruisethewest.com

cruisethewest.com

58 ms

styles.1.0.1.css

styles.1.0.1.css

27 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

CTWlogo.jpg

CTWlogo.jpg

38 ms

m_ports.png

m_ports.png

46 ms

m_info.png

m_info.png

49 ms

welcome-2019-06-14.jpg

welcome-2019-06-14.jpg

137 ms

welcome2.gif

welcome2.gif

50 ms

line_front.gif

line_front.gif

49 ms

shadow_r.gif

shadow_r.gif

52 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

cruisethewest.com accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

cruisethewest.com 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

SEO Factors

cruisethewest.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cruisethewest.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cruisethewest.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

cruisethewest.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cruise The West. 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: