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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

marine-atlantic.ca

Marine Atlantic | Ferries to Nova Scotia & Newfoundland

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

961 ms

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About Website

Visit marine-atlantic.ca now to see the best up-to-date Marine Atlantic content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about marine-atlantic.ca

For ferries to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, take a journey with Marine Atlantic. Enjoy great onboard amenities, dining options, accommodations and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marine-atlantic.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marine-atlantic.ca performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marine-atlantic.ca

38 ms

www.marineatlantic.ca

2043 ms

gtm.js

77 ms

css_z9Tt-fimFFxFr5CArxNBgTl-hff-QTugzMKQBLwRDfk.css

62 ms

css_h9raMjh6V7Uy0UfpjoKBJ5pwJF7Lh_l7H05pak3jalY.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Marine-atlantic.ca, 52% (42 requests) were made to Marineatlantic.ca and 12% (10 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Marineatlantic.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

957.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marine-atlantic.ca main page is 1.1 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 739.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 136.4 kB
  • After minification 136.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 110.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 679 B

  • Original 739.8 kB
  • After minification 739.1 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. Marine Atlantic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 153.9 kB
  • After minification 153.9 kB
  • After compression 149.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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. Marine-atlantic.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (61%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marine Atlantic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marine-atlantic.ca

marine-atlantic.ca

38 ms

www.marineatlantic.ca

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2043 ms

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77 ms

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62 ms

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68 ms

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209 ms

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210 ms

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623 ms

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884 ms

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205 ms

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351 ms

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352 ms

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407 ms

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newfoundland-coastline-GettyImages-108273950.jpg

406 ms

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www.marineatlantic.ca

1003 ms

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513 ms

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728 ms

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725 ms

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726 ms

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726 ms

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783 ms

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781 ms

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866 ms

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167 ms

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458 ms

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100 ms

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7 ms

Accessibility Review

marine-atlantic.ca accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

marine-atlantic.ca best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marine-atlantic.ca SEO score

93

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

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 Marine-atlantic.ca 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 Marine-atlantic.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

marine-atlantic.ca

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