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directcruises.com

Ferries to France, Ireland, Holland, Dover Calais Cross Channel Ferries.co.uk

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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About Website

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Ferries.co.uk are the world's largest independent ferry booking service offering over 1100 ferry routes including Ferries to France, Holland, Ireland and Dover Calais Cross Channel Ferries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directcruises.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directcruises.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

directcruises.com

276 ms

www.directcruises.com

394 ms

styles_uk.css

172 ms

function.js

155 ms

Styles_uk.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Directcruises.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to 3dstats.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Adserver.adtech.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) belongs to the original domain Directcruises.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.8 kB (89%)

Content Size

73.9 kB

After Optimization

8.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directcruises.com main page is 73.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 40.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.7 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 380 B

  • Original 796 B
  • After minification 710 B
  • After compression 416 B

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 380 B or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 33.0 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Directcruises.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (34%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Directcruises. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directcruises.com

directcruises.com

276 ms

www.directcruises.com

www.directcruises.com

394 ms

styles_uk.css

styles_uk.css

172 ms

function.js

function.js

155 ms

Styles_uk.css

Styles_uk.css

168 ms

3dstrack.cgi

3dstrack.cgi

196 ms

directcruises_logo.gif

directcruises_logo.gif

80 ms

home_on.gif

home_on.gif

79 ms

deals_off.gif

deals_off.gif

88 ms

lines_off.gif

lines_off.gif

88 ms

cruise_destinations_off.gif

cruise_destinations_off.gif

155 ms

cruise_seasons_off.gif

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156 ms

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mini_off.gif

156 ms

ferries_off.gif

ferries_off.gif

163 ms

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icon_cust.gif

164 ms

icon_info.gif

icon_info.gif

180 ms

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231 ms

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233 ms

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234 ms

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240 ms

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241 ms

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271 ms

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463 ms

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462 ms

cruise_ships.gif

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310 ms

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costa_cruises.gif

322 ms

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326 ms

carnival_cruises.gif

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361 ms

cunard_cruises.gif

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387 ms

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397 ms

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408 ms

ocean_village_cruises.gif

ocean_village_cruises.gif

453 ms

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fred_olsen_cruises.gif

462 ms

celebrity_cruises.gif

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474 ms

princess_cruises.gif

princess_cruises.gif

485 ms

norwegian_cruise_line.gif

norwegian_cruise_line.gif

541 ms

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537 ms

windstar_cruises.gif

windstar_cruises.gif

539 ms

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hebridean_island_cruises.gif

540 ms

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star_cruises.gif

550 ms

disney_cruises.gif

disney_cruises.gif

561 ms

island_cruises.gif

island_cruises.gif

613 ms

thomson_cruises.gif

thomson_cruises.gif

550 ms

oceania_cruises.gif

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556 ms

azamara_cruises.gif

azamara_cruises.gif

551 ms

viking_river_cruises.gif

viking_river_cruises.gif

549 ms

peter_deilmann_cruises.gif

peter_deilmann_cruises.gif

492 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

546 ms

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91 ms

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7 ms

connect.cgi

connect.cgi

56 ms

grad_back.gif

grad_back.gif

434 ms

SEO Factors

directcruises.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Directcruises.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 Directcruises.com 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

directcruises.com

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