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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ferries.co.uk

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

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

ferries.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ferries content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ferries.co.uk

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.

Visit ferries.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Ferries.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ferries.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.899

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ferries.co.uk

149 ms

ferries.co.uk

285 ms

www.ferries.co.uk

143 ms

www.ferries.co.uk

295 ms

gtm.js

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Ferries.co.uk, 10% (10 requests) were made to Static.directferries.co.uk and 8% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (572 ms) relates to the external source Ssl.directferries.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ferries.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 800.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 13.6 kB, which is 21% 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 54.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 800.8 kB
  • After minification 800.8 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. Ferries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 340.8 kB
  • After minification 340.7 kB
  • After compression 278.7 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 62.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 82.7 kB
  • After minification 82.7 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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. Ferries.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (68%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ferries.co.uk

ferries.co.uk

149 ms

ferries.co.uk

ferries.co.uk

285 ms

www.ferries.co.uk

www.ferries.co.uk

143 ms

www.ferries.co.uk

www.ferries.co.uk

295 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

120 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

86 ms

styles.css

styles.css

87 ms

accessibility.css

accessibility.css

67 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

67 ms

df_engb.js

df_engb.js

572 ms

css

css

88 ms

icon

icon

108 ms

df_mob.css

df_mob.css

60 ms

mobiscroll.javascript.min.css

mobiscroll.javascript.min.css

65 ms

polyfill.js

polyfill.js

62 ms

df_mob_ie.js

df_mob_ie.js

84 ms

df_utm.js

df_utm.js

64 ms

ferries_switcher.js

ferries_switcher.js

82 ms

jquery.ihavecookies.min.js

jquery.ihavecookies.min.js

83 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

145 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

139 ms

fqj1udo.css

fqj1udo.css

145 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

p.css

p.css

29 ms

ferries-logo_uk.svg

ferries-logo_uk.svg

16 ms

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136 ms

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137 ms

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209 ms

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207 ms

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275 ms

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272 ms

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274 ms

naviera_armas_s.png

naviera_armas_s.png

270 ms

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eurotunnel_s.png

276 ms

norfolkline_s.png

norfolkline_s.png

278 ms

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338 ms

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wightlink_s.png

342 ms

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340 ms

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341 ms

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343 ms

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344 ms

tallink_silja_s.png

tallink_silja_s.png

420 ms

ireland.gif

ireland.gif

421 ms

france.gif

france.gif

422 ms

holland.gif

holland.gif

423 ms

spain.gif

spain.gif

424 ms

northern_ireland.gif

northern_ireland.gif

424 ms

belgium.gif

belgium.gif

477 ms

isle_of_wight.gif

isle_of_wight.gif

478 ms

scotland.gif

scotland.gif

480 ms

denmark.gif

denmark.gif

482 ms

isle_of_man.gif

isle_of_man.gif

481 ms

guernsey.gif

guernsey.gif

484 ms

jersey.gif

jersey.gif

545 ms

ibiza.gif

ibiza.gif

547 ms

mallorca.gif

mallorca.gif

547 ms

dublin.gif

dublin.gif

546 ms

greece.gif

greece.gif

552 ms

morocco.gif

morocco.gif

553 ms

AddTrackingCookies

AddTrackingCookies

129 ms

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94 ms

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103 ms

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118 ms

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117 ms

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118 ms

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117 ms

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118 ms

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553 ms

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554 ms

87 ms

mobiscroll.javascript.min.js

mobiscroll.javascript.min.js

40 ms

dealFinderBaseData.aspx

dealFinderBaseData.aspx

101 ms

GetLatestRecentSearch

GetLatestRecentSearch

172 ms

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484 ms

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474 ms

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418 ms

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420 ms

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418 ms

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417 ms

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417 ms

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415 ms

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419 ms

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419 ms

SearchDataGetAB

SearchDataGetAB

75 ms

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419 ms

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417 ms

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418 ms

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418 ms

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423 ms

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424 ms

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42 ms

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406 ms

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406 ms

Accessibility Review

ferries.co.uk accessibility score

83

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

ferries.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

ferries.co.uk 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ferries.co.uk 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 Ferries.co.uk 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

ferries.co.uk

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