Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

directlinecruises.com

Cruise Deals and Discount Cruise Vacations | Direct Line Cruises

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

directlinecruises.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directlinecruises.com page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directlinecruises.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directlinecruises.com

312 ms

jquery.min.js

29 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

78 ms

dlc-improved-search.js

149 ms

dlc-search-widget.js

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (123 requests) were addressed to the original Directlinecruises.com, 5% (7 requests) were made to Bridge.caspio.net and 3% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Directlinecruises.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Directlinecruises.com main page is 2.1 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. 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 156.9 kB

  • Original 199.1 kB
  • After minification 191.4 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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 156.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 430.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 712.9 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. Obviously, Direct Line Cruises needs image optimization as it can save up to 430.6 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 466.0 kB

  • Original 711.7 kB
  • After minification 711.7 kB
  • After compression 245.7 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 466.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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. Directlinecruises.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (26%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

81

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Line 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

directlinecruises.com accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

SEO Factors

directlinecruises.com SEO score

85

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Directlinecruises.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 Directlinecruises.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 description is not detected on the main page of Direct Line 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: