Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

gds.travel

GDS.travel supplier - top global travel wholesaler offers travel agents a large selections of hotels, transfers, cruises, car rental supplyers and a t...

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

363 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

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GDS.travel is one of the largest travel global wholesalers suppliers. We offer our customers and incredible selection of hotels, transfers, cruises, car rental supplyers and a ticketing service. all t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gds.travel page load time and found that the first response time was 363 ms and then it took 2.1 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

gds.travel performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gds.travel

363 ms

stil_gds.css

117 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.13.custom.css

231 ms

jquery-ui-timepicker.css

233 ms

colorbox.css

233 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Gds.travel, 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Brand.mastercard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gds.travel.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

894.4 kB

After Optimization

772.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gds.travel main page is 894.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 861.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 32.6 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. 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 25.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 96.2 kB

  • Original 861.3 kB
  • After minification 765.0 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. Obviously, GDS needs image optimization as it can save up to 96.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (71%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GDS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gds.travel accessibility score

53

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gds.travel best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gds.travel SEO score

58

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

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

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 Gds.travel 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 Gds.travel 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 GDS. 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: