Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

shiptime.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

826 ms

Page Rendered

424 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shiptime.com page load time and found that the first response time was 87 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

shiptime.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shiptime.com

87 ms

lir1cjx.js

257 ms

styles.css

7 ms

en.js

27 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Shiptime.com, 12% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (258 ms) relates to the external source P.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.4 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

752.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Shiptime.com main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 583.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.7 kB, which is 14% 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 52.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 583.8 kB
  • After minification 572.4 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. Ship Time images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 244.6 kB

  • Original 394.0 kB
  • After minification 393.5 kB
  • After compression 149.4 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 244.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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. Shiptime.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (45%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ship Time. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shiptime.com 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

shiptime.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shiptime.com SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shiptime.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 Shiptime.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ship Time. 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: