Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

free-flight.info

Free-Flight – Virtual Flight

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Free-flight.info page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

free-flight.info performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

free-flight.info

187 ms

virtualflight.org.uk

1434 ms

style.css

159 ms

theme.css

275 ms

somdn-style.css

311 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Free-flight.info, 94% (33 requests) were made to Virtualflight.org.uk and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Virtualflight.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Free-flight.info main page is 2.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 67.5 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 51.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Free Flight images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 425.8 kB
  • After minification 425.8 kB
  • After compression 357.5 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 68.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 125.4 kB

  • Original 481.0 kB
  • After minification 481.0 kB
  • After compression 355.6 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. Free-flight.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (72%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Flight. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

free-flight.info accessibility score

94

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Best Practices

free-flight.info 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

free-flight.info SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Free-flight.info 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 Free-flight.info 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 Free Flight. 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: