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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

bluebridge.co.nz

Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

847 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

373 ms

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About Website

Visit bluebridge.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Bluebridge content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bluebridge.co.nz

Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries sail between Wellington city and Picton 50 times a week.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluebridge.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 847 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluebridge.co.nz performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluebridge.co.nz

847 ms

www.bluebridge.co.nz

2186 ms

fonts.css

252 ms

fonts.css

202 ms

normalize.css

402 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Bluebridge.co.nz, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bluebridge.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

652.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluebridge.co.nz main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 557.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 12.9 kB, which is 26% 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 42.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 557.2 kB
  • After minification 508.2 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. Bluebridge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 196.7 kB

  • Original 310.1 kB
  • After minification 309.4 kB
  • After compression 113.4 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 196.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.4 kB

  • Original 121.7 kB
  • After minification 119.8 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Bluebridge.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bluebridge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bluebridge.co.nz

bluebridge.co.nz

847 ms

www.bluebridge.co.nz

www.bluebridge.co.nz

2186 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

252 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

202 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

402 ms

screen.css

screen.css

619 ms

screen-enhanced.css

screen-enhanced.css

416 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

681 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.4.js

jquery-ui-1.10.4.js

677 ms

modernizr.custom.36411.js

modernizr.custom.36411.js

457 ms

bluebridge-scripts-combined.min.js

bluebridge-scripts-combined.min.js

803 ms

script.js

script.js

615 ms

luvly.js

luvly.js

675 ms

65D7C4687AF45646C.css

65D7C4687AF45646C.css

877 ms

print.css

print.css

202 ms

access.css

access.css

298 ms

sidebar-bg.gif

sidebar-bg.gif

228 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

144 ms

bluebridge-logo-01.png

bluebridge-logo-01.png

219 ms

bluebridge-logo-03.png

bluebridge-logo-03.png

436 ms

booking-widget-title-1-en.png

booking-widget-title-1-en.png

803 ms

search-white.svg

search-white.svg

203 ms

bluebridge-logo-02.png

bluebridge-logo-02.png

233 ms

arrow-blue-right-02.png

arrow-blue-right-02.png

403 ms

text-welcome.png

text-welcome.png

803 ms

booking-widget-boat.svg

booking-widget-boat.svg

525 ms

booking-widget-map.png

booking-widget-map.png

739 ms

booking-widget-title-3-en.png

booking-widget-title-3-en.png

1104 ms

icon-telephone.svg

icon-telephone.svg

731 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

947 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

955 ms

icon-tripadvisor.svg

icon-tripadvisor.svg

962 ms

icon-email-white.svg

icon-email-white.svg

1072 ms

qualmark-visitor-transport.png

qualmark-visitor-transport.png

1071 ms

qualmark-enviro-silver-award.png

qualmark-enviro-silver-award.png

1380 ms

strait-shipping-01.png

strait-shipping-01.png

1172 ms

arrow-blue-down-01.svg

arrow-blue-down-01.svg

1179 ms

icon-date-blue.svg

icon-date-blue.svg

1271 ms

form-radio-off.svg

form-radio-off.svg

1272 ms

booking-widget-plus.svg

booking-widget-plus.svg

1301 ms

strait_hand_web_north-webfont.woff

strait_hand_web_north-webfont.woff

1602 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

17 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

43 ms

ec.js

ec.js

24 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

collect

collect

50 ms

32 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

19 ms

CroppedImage2160838-bb-childcancer-webbanner.jpg

CroppedImage2160838-bb-childcancer-webbanner.jpg

1759 ms

CroppedImage394394-Bluebridge-150815-7431-Web.jpg

CroppedImage394394-Bluebridge-150815-7431-Web.jpg

1172 ms

CroppedImage394394-food-drink.jpg

CroppedImage394394-food-drink.jpg

1172 ms

CroppedImage625385-holiday-packages.jpg

CroppedImage625385-holiday-packages.jpg

1003 ms

CroppedImage625385-private-cabins.jpg

CroppedImage625385-private-cabins.jpg

1091 ms

CroppedImage489294-fare-types.jpg

CroppedImage489294-fare-types.jpg

931 ms

CroppedImage489294-Swimming.jpg

CroppedImage489294-Swimming.jpg

804 ms

CroppedImage489294-Dog-and-ship.jpg

CroppedImage489294-Dog-and-ship.jpg

835 ms

Accessibility Review

bluebridge.co.nz accessibility score

85

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bluebridge.co.nz 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

Serves images with low resolution

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

bluebridge.co.nz SEO score

93

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

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 Bluebridge.co.nz 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 Bluebridge.co.nz 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

bluebridge.co.nz

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bluebridge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: