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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

rivercruisetours.com

2023 Europe River Cruises | 2023 River Cruises | 2024 River Cruise Tours

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

654 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

9.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rivercruisetours.com page load time and found that the first response time was 654 ms and then it took 13.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rivercruisetours.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rivercruisetours.com

654 ms

gpt.js

222 ms

mm-spcprod.js

222 ms

site.css

417 ms

rivercruiseseine.jpg

1446 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Rivercruisetours.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Vikingrivercruises.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Amawaterways.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Rivercruisetours.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

742.4 kB

After Optimization

500.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rivercruisetours.com main page is 742.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 420.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 16.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 420.5 kB
  • After minification 407.0 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. River Cruise Tours images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 206.7 kB

  • Original 289.9 kB
  • After minification 247.4 kB
  • After compression 83.2 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 206.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Rivercruisetours.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (54%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of River Cruise Tours. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.rivercruisetours.com

www.rivercruisetours.com

654 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

222 ms

mm-spcprod.js

mm-spcprod.js

222 ms

site.css

site.css

417 ms

rivercruiseseine.jpg

rivercruiseseine.jpg

1446 ms

MAP_2015_RhineGetaway_956x690_tcm21-9951.jpg

MAP_2015_RhineGetaway_956x690_tcm21-9951.jpg

759 ms

cruise_map_enticing_douro_big.jpg

cruise_map_enticing_douro_big.jpg

1483 ms

1443 ms

Site_Logo.jpg

Site_Logo.jpg

742 ms

MAP_2015_DanubeWaltz_956x690_tcm21-9934.jpg

MAP_2015_DanubeWaltz_956x690_tcm21-9934.jpg

742 ms

MAP_2015_WaterwaysTsars_956x690_tcm21-9956.jpg

MAP_2015_WaterwaysTsars_956x690_tcm21-9956.jpg

742 ms

pubads_impl_147.js

pubads_impl_147.js

1453 ms

Page_BG.jpg

Page_BG.jpg

1984 ms

Header_BG.jpg

Header_BG.jpg

2018 ms

TopNav_Right.gif

TopNav_Right.gif

2019 ms

TopNav_Left.gif

TopNav_Left.gif

2020 ms

AgentContactBG.gif

AgentContactBG.gif

2019 ms

Menu_BG.jpg

Menu_BG.jpg

2019 ms

MenuSpacer.jpg

MenuSpacer.jpg

2019 ms

ContentFooter.jpg

ContentFooter.jpg

2019 ms

CatHeader_Left.gif

CatHeader_Left.gif

2163 ms

CatHeader_Right.gif

CatHeader_Right.gif

2161 ms

SearchBoxBG.gif

SearchBoxBG.gif

2162 ms

SearchBoxTop.gif

SearchBoxTop.gif

2162 ms

SearchBoxBottom.gif

SearchBoxBottom.gif

2161 ms

RightContent_BG.gif

RightContent_BG.gif

2162 ms

RightContent_Header.gif

RightContent_Header.gif

1996 ms

RightContent_Footer.gif

RightContent_Footer.gif

1994 ms

cruise_map_enticing_douro_big.jpg

cruise_map_enticing_douro_big.jpg

1605 ms

ads

ads

341 ms

container.html

container.html

227 ms

Accessibility Review

rivercruisetours.com accessibility score

98

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

rivercruisetours.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rivercruisetours.com SEO score

82

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rivercruisetours.com 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 Rivercruisetours.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of River Cruise Tours. 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: