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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

ws.directferries.com

Direct Ferries | The global ferry ticket site in your language

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

713 ms

Page Rendered

391 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ws.directferries.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ws.directferries.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ws.directferries.com

148 ms

global

8 ms

index.html

38 ms

glide.js

142 ms

df_utm.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ws.directferries.com, 71% (46 requests) were made to Static.directferries.co.uk and 6% (4 requests) were made to Directferries.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (230 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.9 kB (53%)

Content Size

289.6 kB

After Optimization

134.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ws.directferries.com main page is 289.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 179.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 153.2 kB

  • Original 179.2 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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 35.8 kB, which is 20% 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 153.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Ws Direct Ferries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 102.4 kB
  • After minification 102.4 kB
  • After compression 100.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (72%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ws Direct Ferries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ws.directferries.com

ws.directferries.com

148 ms

global

global

8 ms

index.html

index.html

38 ms

glide.js

glide.js

142 ms

df_utm.js

df_utm.js

43 ms

lozad.min.js

lozad.min.js

41 ms

functions.js

functions.js

42 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

86 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

107 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

230 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

119 ms

css

css

153 ms

flags.png

flags.png

222 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

30 ms

typo.svg

typo.svg

31 ms

active-booking.svg

active-booking.svg

30 ms

help.svg

help.svg

51 ms

user.svg

user.svg

47 ms

euro.svg

euro.svg

50 ms

currency.svg

currency.svg

51 ms

us.svg

us.svg

52 ms

au.svg

au.svg

59 ms

nz.svg

nz.svg

54 ms

ie.svg

ie.svg

63 ms

gb.svg

gb.svg

64 ms

ca.svg

ca.svg

61 ms

ch.svg

ch.svg

62 ms

ru.svg

ru.svg

86 ms

pt.svg

pt.svg

79 ms

es-ct.svg

es-ct.svg

84 ms

kr.svg

kr.svg

77 ms

fi.svg

fi.svg

76 ms

sk.svg

sk.svg

84 ms

nl.svg

nl.svg

149 ms

cz.svg

cz.svg

151 ms

es.svg

es.svg

160 ms

fr.svg

fr.svg

159 ms

jp.svg

jp.svg

156 ms

se.svg

se.svg

147 ms

dk.svg

dk.svg

193 ms

cn.svg

cn.svg

190 ms

tr.svg

tr.svg

189 ms

sa.svg

sa.svg

194 ms

at.svg

at.svg

197 ms

it.svg

it.svg

196 ms

be.svg

be.svg

204 ms

gr.svg

gr.svg

202 ms

pl.svg

pl.svg

208 ms

de.svg

de.svg

204 ms

no.svg

no.svg

182 ms

ua.svg

ua.svg

181 ms

155 ms

bat.js

bat.js

175 ms

e14ae4f961e1e.js

e14ae4f961e1e.js

159 ms

id.svg

id.svg

168 ms

ma.svg

ma.svg

164 ms

language.svg

language.svg

163 ms

arrow-right.svg

arrow-right.svg

167 ms

arrow-left.svg

arrow-left.svg

165 ms

d

d

38 ms

d

d

51 ms

d

d

62 ms

d

d

63 ms

41 ms

5245641.js

5245641.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

ws.directferries.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

ws.directferries.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

ws.directferries.com SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Ws.directferries.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 Ws.directferries.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

ws.directferries.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ws Direct Ferries. 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: