Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

us.cathaypacific.com

Cathay Pacific | Book flights & elevate your life

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

983 ms

us.cathaypacific.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Us.cathaypacific.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

us.cathaypacific.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value23,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.746

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

en_US.html

266 ms

clientlib-base.min.12346fa7f7e27b25aaf89100e7d511bd.css

25 ms

clientlib-react-1.11.0.min.53aed8ab1705c7ba3917488eaf40de4f.css

35 ms

fonts.css

177 ms

queueclient.min.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Us.cathaypacific.com, 12% (7 requests) were made to Assets.cathaypacific.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.queue-it.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (499 ms) relates to the external source Cathaypacific.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (41%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Us.cathaypacific.com main page is 2.7 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 507.3 kB

  • Original 571.0 kB
  • After minification 570.6 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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 507.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 579.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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, Us Cathay Pacific needs image optimization as it can save up to 579.6 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 342 B

  • Original 115.8 kB
  • After minification 115.8 kB
  • After compression 115.4 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

-92%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Us.cathaypacific.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (23%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Us 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

us.cathaypacific.com accessibility score

56

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

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

us.cathaypacific.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

us.cathaypacific.com SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Us.cathaypacific.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 Us.cathaypacific.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

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