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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

flightsdirect.com

Last Minute Flights - Cheap Flights - Flight Checker

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flightsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flightsdirect.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.89

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flightsdirect.com

277 ms

www.flightsdirect.com

707 ms

style.css

470 ms

css

23 ms

js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Flightsdirect.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Flightsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 911.3 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

502.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flightsdirect.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 11.3 kB, which is 13% 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 77.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 188.5 kB

  • Original 447.0 kB
  • After minification 258.4 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, Flights Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 188.5 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 305.0 kB

  • Original 515.8 kB
  • After minification 515.8 kB
  • After compression 210.8 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 305.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 340.7 kB

  • Original 365.6 kB
  • After minification 155.1 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Flightsdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 340.7 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flights Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

flightsdirect.com

flightsdirect.com

277 ms

www.flightsdirect.com

www.flightsdirect.com

707 ms

style.css

style.css

470 ms

css

css

23 ms

js

js

38 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

1155 ms

ga.js

ga.js

49 ms

flights_direct_logo.png

flights_direct_logo.png

90 ms

header-cart.png

header-cart.png

417 ms

99_BANNER.jpg

99_BANNER.jpg

1064 ms

hotels.jpg

hotels.jpg

334 ms

car-hire.jpg

car-hire.jpg

335 ms

homepage-info-why.png

homepage-info-why.png

172 ms

homepage-info-assistance.png

homepage-info-assistance.png

260 ms

homepage-info-financial.png

homepage-info-financial.png

346 ms

EK_Barrhead_300x250v2.gif

EK_Barrhead_300x250v2.gif

1606 ms

nav-sprite-active_icon.png

nav-sprite-active_icon.png

923 ms

nav-sprite_icon.png

nav-sprite_icon.png

924 ms

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s-BiyweUPV0v-yRb-cjciC3USBnSvpkopQaUR-2r7iU.ttf

37 ms

EFpQQyG9GqCrobXxL-KRMfEr6Hm6RMS0v1dtXsGir4g.ttf

EFpQQyG9GqCrobXxL-KRMfEr6Hm6RMS0v1dtXsGir4g.ttf

37 ms

newsletter_box.jpg

newsletter_box.jpg

559 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

643 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

round-trip_icon.png

round-trip_icon.png

88 ms

calendar_icon.jpg

calendar_icon.jpg

89 ms

fd-adult.jpg

fd-adult.jpg

168 ms

fd-child.jpg

fd-child.jpg

174 ms

fd-infant.jpg

fd-infant.jpg

255 ms

Accessibility Review

flightsdirect.com accessibility score

69

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

flightsdirect.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

flightsdirect.com SEO score

93

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flightsdirect.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Flightsdirect.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

flightsdirect.com

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