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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

vrc.com

River Cruises - European, Asian, Mississippi & Nile Cruises | Viking®

Page Load Speed

799 ms in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

542 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vrc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 733 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vrc.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,400 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.137

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.vikingrivercruises.com

66 ms

home

19 ms

launch-2f0c08439ba2.min.js

91 ms

TRD-Desktop-Mega-Menu-Target.js

66 ms

player.js

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Vrc.com, 12% (6 requests) were made to Image-handler-api.viking.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to Lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

869.1 kB

After Optimization

699.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vrc.com main page is 869.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 708.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 142.8 kB

  • Original 159.2 kB
  • After minification 113.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 46.1 kB, which is 29% 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 142.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Vrc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 708.5 kB
  • After minification 708.5 kB
  • After compression 682.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 94 B

  • Original 313 B
  • After minification 308 B
  • After compression 219 B

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. Vrc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94 B or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (57%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

vrc.com accessibility score

89

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

vrc.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vrc.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Vrc.com 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 Vrc.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 Vrc. 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: