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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

flights.ca

Cheap Flights | Best Flight Deals on all International & Domestic Flights | has the Best Prices on all Flights | Flights.ca

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

322 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flights.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flights.ca performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.942

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flights.ca

142 ms

flights.ca

97 ms

www.flights.ca

334 ms

styles.css

20 ms

ifu5xcu.css

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Flights.ca, 27% (20 requests) were made to Flights-ca.s3.amazonaws.com and 17% (13 requests) were made to Travel-img-assets.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (791 ms) relates to the external source Travel-img-assets.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 239.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flights.ca main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 180.4 kB

  • Original 196.9 kB
  • After minification 154.1 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 42.8 kB, which is 22% 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 180.4 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Flights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 334.4 kB
  • After minification 334.4 kB
  • After compression 300.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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. Flights.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (21%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flights.ca

flights.ca

142 ms

flights.ca

flights.ca

97 ms

www.flights.ca

www.flights.ca

334 ms

styles.css

styles.css

20 ms

ifu5xcu.css

ifu5xcu.css

145 ms

app.js

app.js

10 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

8 ms

p.css

p.css

23 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

322 ms

logo-flights-tagline.svg

logo-flights-tagline.svg

286 ms

icon-defs.svg

icon-defs.svg

181 ms

2019-08-26-14-34-01-39711__Flights-ca__WWW_%28Homepage_Txt%29.png

2019-08-26-14-34-01-39711__Flights-ca__WWW_%28Homepage_Txt%29.png

285 ms

0.8d053ba0f394b3a55a36.js

0.8d053ba0f394b3a55a36.js

167 ms

1.90bd02f6a7bfe94bc11c.js

1.90bd02f6a7bfe94bc11c.js

171 ms

2.a1d7f3b0a47f76bb6846.js

2.a1d7f3b0a47f76bb6846.js

228 ms

5.6513424440c3234d2e49.js

5.6513424440c3234d2e49.js

228 ms

8.9680325f15eaad77bc7e.js

8.9680325f15eaad77bc7e.js

221 ms

3.295a2bfdcae07339ca88.js

3.295a2bfdcae07339ca88.js

227 ms

7.6e35cb82dbdb397e643f.js

7.6e35cb82dbdb397e643f.js

439 ms

logo-fare-promise-black.svg

logo-fare-promise-black.svg

548 ms

ws.png

ws.png

790 ms

102.gif

102.gif

620 ms

smarticon

smarticon

139 ms

logo-easy-booking-black.svg

logo-easy-booking-black.svg

516 ms

canada-vancouver.jpg

canada-vancouver.jpg

561 ms

canada-calgary.jpg

canada-calgary.jpg

561 ms

canada-winnipeg.jpg

canada-winnipeg.jpg

556 ms

unitedstates-newyork.jpg

unitedstates-newyork.jpg

576 ms

unitedstates-orlando.jpg

unitedstates-orlando.jpg

575 ms

unitedstates-losangeles.jpg

unitedstates-losangeles.jpg

562 ms

netherlands-amsterdam.jpg

netherlands-amsterdam.jpg

779 ms

unitedkingdom-london.jpg

unitedkingdom-london.jpg

787 ms

spain-barcelona.jpg

spain-barcelona.jpg

608 ms

mexico-cancun.jpg

mexico-cancun.jpg

585 ms

mexico-loscabos.jpg

mexico-loscabos.jpg

782 ms

generic-city.jpg

generic-city.jpg

781 ms

Tokyo.jpg

Tokyo.jpg

785 ms

Hong-Kong.jpg

Hong-Kong.jpg

780 ms

modal-sign-in.jpg

modal-sign-in.jpg

789 ms

loading-plane.gif

loading-plane.gif

785 ms

tico-logo.png

tico-logo.png

481 ms

logo-flights.svg

logo-flights.svg

482 ms

dl.png

dl.png

777 ms

ac.png

ac.png

778 ms

ts.png

ts.png

778 ms

pd.png

pd.png

779 ms

fi.png

fi.png

779 ms

aa.png

aa.png

786 ms

ua.png

ua.png

787 ms

cm.png

cm.png

787 ms

pr.png

pr.png

787 ms

lx.png

lx.png

788 ms

lh.png

lh.png

788 ms

qr.png

qr.png

791 ms

2019-08-14-21-55-05-2019-07-16-15-01-35-login-header.jpg

2019-08-14-21-55-05-2019-07-16-15-01-35-login-header.jpg

434 ms

d

d

71 ms

d

d

339 ms

d

d

388 ms

d

d

388 ms

d

d

339 ms

d

d

396 ms

d

d

398 ms

d

d

427 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

288 ms

destinations

destinations

445 ms

%7C%7C

%7C%7C

262 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

138 ms

prum.min.js

prum.min.js

153 ms

embed.js

embed.js

192 ms

icon-chevron-down.svg

icon-chevron-down.svg

363 ms

icon-checkmark-black.svg

icon-checkmark-black.svg

366 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

collect

collect

32 ms

all

all

225 ms

js

js

56 ms

Accessibility Review

flights.ca accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

flights.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

flights.ca SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

flights.ca

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