Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

cathaypacific.ca

Cathay Pacific | Book flights & elevate your life

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

666 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cathaypacific.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cathaypacific.ca performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.507

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

en_CA.html

299 ms

clientlib-base.min.12346fa7f7e27b25aaf89100e7d511bd.css

20 ms

clientlib-react-1.13.0.min.d99c99d2f42458f9b7fbfe270ad98068.css

37 ms

fonts.css

216 ms

queueclient.min.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cathaypacific.ca, 11% (7 requests) were made to Assets.cathaypacific.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.queue-it.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (411 ms) relates to the external source Queue.cathaypacific.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 714.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

658.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cathaypacific.ca main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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. Images take 620.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 524.7 kB

  • Original 589.0 kB
  • After minification 588.6 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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 524.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 149.0 kB

  • Original 620.4 kB
  • After minification 471.4 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. Obviously, Cathay Pacific needs image optimization as it can save up to 149.0 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 151.7 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 121.8 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 30.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Cathaypacific.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (22%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cathay Pacific. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cathaypacific.ca accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

cathaypacific.ca best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cathaypacific.ca SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Cathaypacific.ca 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 Cathaypacific.ca 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 Cathay Pacific. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: