Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 63

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

virginblue.com.au

Virgin Australia | Bring on Wonderful

Page Load Speed

99.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

82.9 sec

Page Rendered

15.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginblue.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 98.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 10 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

virginblue.com.au performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.736

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1472 ms

rum.min.js

4296 ms

gpt.js

3012 ms

css_fonts.css

4344 ms

homepage-min.css

4343 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Virginblue.com.au, 11% (23 requests) were made to Virginaustralia.com and 9% (18 requests) were made to Virginaustralia.tt.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22.2 sec) relates to the external source Upgrade.plusgrade.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (45%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Virginblue.com.au main page is 6.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 351.1 kB

  • Original 401.9 kB
  • After minification 381.0 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 351.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Virgin Blue images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 895.8 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 2.2 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 306.3 kB

  • Original 365.4 kB
  • After minification 358.1 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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. Virginblue.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 306.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (54%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgin Blue. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virginblue.com.au accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

virginblue.com.au SEO score

63

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Virginblue.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 Virginblue.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Virgin Blue. 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: