Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

booking.eurostar.com

Eurostar.com: Book Europe Train Tickets and Holidays

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

booking.eurostar.com screenshot

About Website

Visit booking.eurostar.com now to see the best up-to-date Book Ing Eurostar content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about booking.eurostar.com

Eurostar Official Website. Book your train tickets to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Lille and many more European destinations with Eurostar.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Booking.eurostar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

booking.eurostar.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

booking.eurostar.com

133 ms

uk-en

723 ms

utag.js

588 ms

pemw-lt.woff2

1264 ms

d63ab0caa314b6f81a4a2576872e906ff6bddf13-440x342.png

1125 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Booking.eurostar.com, 55% (33 requests) were made to Eurostar.com and 20% (12 requests) were made to Static.eurostar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Eurostar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.0 kB (71%)

Content Size

361.4 kB

After Optimization

105.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Booking.eurostar.com main page is 361.4 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. 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. HTML takes 319.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 253.8 kB

  • Original 319.9 kB
  • After minification 319.8 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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 253.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 39.3 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. Book Ing Eurostar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (86%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Book Ing Eurostar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

booking.eurostar.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

booking.eurostar.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

booking.eurostar.com SEO score

93

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

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 Booking.eurostar.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 Booking.eurostar.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 Book Ing Eurostar. 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: