Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

shipsofcalmac.co.uk

Ships of CalMac - The History of the Fleet Online

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

72 ms

shipsofcalmac.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit shipsofcalmac.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Ships Of Cal Mac content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shipsofcalmac.co.uk

Welcome to Ships of CalMac, history of the fleet, crossings and crews. Current and achive photos, news and forum. We are NOT linked to the offical CalMac website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shipsofcalmac.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shipsofcalmac.co.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk

1773 ms

minified.js

35 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

65 ms

polyfill.min.js

67 ms

mobile-app-invite-banner.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shipsofcalmac.co.uk, 44% (17 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 31% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Shipsofcalmac.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (65%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

569.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Shipsofcalmac.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 261.5 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 1.0 MB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 800 B

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 25.3 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. Ships Of Cal Mac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 284.9 kB
  • After minification 284.9 kB
  • After compression 281.3 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Shipsofcalmac.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ships Of Cal Mac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shipsofcalmac.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shipsofcalmac.co.uk 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

shipsofcalmac.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Shipsofcalmac.co.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 Shipsofcalmac.co.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 data is detected on the main page of Ships Of Cal Mac. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: