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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

northstarcruises.com.au

Luxury Cruises in Australia - True North Adventure Cruises

Page Load Speed

16.9 sec in total

First Response

580 ms

Resources Loaded

15.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit northstarcruises.com.au now to see the best up-to-date North Star Cruises content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about northstarcruises.com.au

Experience the Adventure luxury cruises in Australia aboard the award-winning True North! Activity-based itineraries are designed to satisfy the adventurous traveler.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstarcruises.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 580 ms and then it took 16.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northstarcruises.com.au performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northstarcruises.com.au

580 ms

truenorth.com.au

4770 ms

jquery.min.js

1223 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

1147 ms

14718.js

1147 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northstarcruises.com.au, 95% (88 requests) were made to Truenorth.com.au and 1% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Truenorth.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northstarcruises.com.au main page is 2.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 318.4 kB

  • Original 383.1 kB
  • After minification 375.6 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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 318.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 72.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. North Star Cruises images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 446.1 kB
  • After minification 446.1 kB
  • After compression 443.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Northstarcruises.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (31%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

63

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Star Cruises. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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580 ms

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Accessibility Review

northstarcruises.com.au accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

northstarcruises.com.au 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

northstarcruises.com.au SEO score

91

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

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 Northstarcruises.com.au 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 Northstarcruises.com.au 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of North Star Cruises. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: