Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

discountflights.com

Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets & Airfares | Discount Flights

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

discountflights.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discountflights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discountflights.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discountflights.com

159 ms

www.discountflights.com

471 ms

css

45 ms

css

57 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 205 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (147 requests) were addressed to the original Discountflights.com, 5% (10 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (9 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Discountflights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 970.7 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

778.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Discountflights.com main page is 1.7 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 866.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 211.1 kB
  • After minification 208.1 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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 157.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 423.1 kB
  • After minification 417.7 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. Discount Flights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 599.2 kB

  • Original 866.1 kB
  • After minification 706.3 kB
  • After compression 266.9 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 599.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 208.8 kB

  • Original 248.9 kB
  • After minification 226.2 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Discountflights.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 158 (83%)

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discount Flights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

discountflights.com accessibility score

80

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

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

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

discountflights.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

SEO Factors

discountflights.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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