Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

northseaferries.org.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northseaferries.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northseaferries.org.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northseaferries.org.uk

207 ms

www.anyferry.co.uk

273 ms

bootstrap.min.css

308 ms

anyferry-styles.css

304 ms

jquery.min.js

300 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northseaferries.org.uk, 57% (12 requests) were made to Anyferry.co.uk and 19% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) relates to the external source Anyferry.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.4 kB (45%)

Content Size

531.1 kB

After Optimization

289.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Northseaferries.org.uk main page is 531.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 245.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 2.7 kB, which is 13% 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 15.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 96.8 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. Northsea Ferries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 245.1 kB
  • After minification 244.9 kB
  • After compression 157.8 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 87.3 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 159.9 kB
  • After minification 138.5 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. Northseaferries.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (53%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northsea 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northseaferries.org.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

northseaferries.org.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

northseaferries.org.uk SEO score

94

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Northseaferries.org.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 Northseaferries.org.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

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