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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

departures.com

Departures | Must-See Destinations, Hotels, Restaurants, Guides

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

Visit departures.com now to see the best up-to-date Departures content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about departures.com

A magazine about exceptional places, people, and things for American Express Platinum Card® and Centurion® Members.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Departures.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

departures.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,440 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

78 ms

dls.min.css

49 ms

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76 ms

clientlibs.min.86dbb33c40d57dfb3fcb6ac39c588103.css

66 ms

codesnippet.min.149f1b4583ecf1df45db55c77e3b00e7.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Departures.com, 43% (16 requests) were made to Americanexpress.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Icm.aexp-static.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (632 ms) relates to the external source Americanexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 913.0 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

487.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Departures.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 826.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 445.1 kB

  • Original 496.9 kB
  • After minification 495.5 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 445.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Departures images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 447.8 kB

  • Original 826.2 kB
  • After minification 826.0 kB
  • After compression 378.4 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 447.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 75.2 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. Departures.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (67%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Departures. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

78 ms

dls.min.css

dls.min.css

49 ms

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enterprise.min.62e485da9610c83265d1dc2dbf8bfaa4.css

76 ms

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clientlibs.min.86dbb33c40d57dfb3fcb6ac39c588103.css

66 ms

codesnippet.min.149f1b4583ecf1df45db55c77e3b00e7.css

codesnippet.min.149f1b4583ecf1df45db55c77e3b00e7.css

66 ms

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editablegird.min.b7d82f85fc41036dac496478f5d69865.css

70 ms

departures-overlay.css

departures-overlay.css

66 ms

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

dls-logo-bluebox-solid.svg

35 ms

dls-logo-stack.svg

dls-logo-stack.svg

38 ms

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

dls-logo-stack-white.svg

37 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

55 ms

navScript.js

navScript.js

145 ms

service-worker-client.js

service-worker-client.js

130 ms

footerScript.js

footerScript.js

145 ms

navscript.js

navscript.js

25 ms

OneTaglibrary.min.js

OneTaglibrary.min.js

43 ms

script-supplier.js

script-supplier.js

44 ms

dls.min.js

dls.min.js

47 ms

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enterprise.min.65d69473dbb025b675d494e9fabc9f61.js

57 ms

login.min.06e906c2e44e9038348f5eb38045e549.js

login.min.06e906c2e44e9038348f5eb38045e549.js

48 ms

clientlibs.min.2c2e5b5190523d80db6ad67d3c197c0b.js

clientlibs.min.2c2e5b5190523d80db6ad67d3c197c0b.js

70 ms

codesnippet.min.2cbccba84f1aa1778738683f6bf77d69.js

codesnippet.min.2cbccba84f1aa1778738683f6bf77d69.js

71 ms

departures-overlay.js

departures-overlay.js

97 ms

70 ms

dls-icons.min.js

dls-icons.min.js

266 ms

dls-logo-line.svg

dls-logo-line.svg

42 ms

dls-flag-us.svg

dls-flag-us.svg

44 ms

grid.less

grid.less

274 ms

satelliteLib-bea3c9697c6240996731438f72200c4b82ae0d40.js

satelliteLib-bea3c9697c6240996731438f72200c4b82ae0d40.js

18 ms

error.html

error.html

438 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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66 ms

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65 ms

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632 ms

Accessibility Review

departures.com accessibility score

99

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

Best Practices

departures.com best practices score

75

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

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

departures.com SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

departures.com

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