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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

flightsdirect.com

Last Minute Flights - Cheap Flights - Flight Checker

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

flightsdirect.com screenshot

About Website

Visit flightsdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Flights Direct content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about flightsdirect.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flightsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flightsdirect.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.244

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flightsdirect.com

259 ms

396 ms

flightdeals

78 ms

flightdeals

689 ms

gtm.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Flightsdirect.com, 40% (30 requests) were made to Barrheadtravel.co.uk and 9% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Barrheadtravel.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 313.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

923.8 kB

After Optimization

610.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flightsdirect.com main page is 923.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 500.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 184.8 kB

  • Original 214.4 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. 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 184.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 146.0 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. Flights Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 120.9 kB

  • Original 500.2 kB
  • After minification 500.2 kB
  • After compression 379.4 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 120.9 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 55.1 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Flightsdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (58%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flights Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flightsdirect.com

flightsdirect.com

259 ms

396 ms

flightdeals

flightdeals

78 ms

flightdeals

flightdeals

689 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

150 ms

css

css

42 ms

js

js

126 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

26 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

27 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

268 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

375 ms

main.min.css

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1270 ms

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106 ms

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274 ms

logo.png

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910 ms

blank.gif

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440 ms

reassurance-award.svg

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440 ms

reassurance-financially-protected.svg

reassurance-financially-protected.svg

910 ms

reassurance-search.svg

reassurance-search.svg

912 ms

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1207 ms

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1267 ms

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1266 ms

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remote.axd

1455 ms

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1458 ms

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remote.axd

1458 ms

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1458 ms

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212 ms

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213 ms

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1601 ms

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1300 ms

97108175.js

97108175.js

129 ms

uc.js

uc.js

1106 ms

landing

landing

1092 ms

js

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264 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

809 ms

destination

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206 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

809 ms

destination

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729 ms

destination

destination

802 ms

loader.js

loader.js

800 ms

hotjar-171.js

hotjar-171.js

1073 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

798 ms

widget

widget

1406 ms

js

js

793 ms

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1065 ms

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sdk.js

795 ms

97108175

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636 ms

api.js

api.js

949 ms

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516 ms

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622 ms

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623 ms

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893 ms

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720 ms

0.7.32

0.7.32

299 ms

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500 ms

call-tracking_9.js

call-tracking_9.js

245 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

148 ms

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394 ms

collect

collect

143 ms

la-map-marker-icon.svg

la-map-marker-icon.svg

338 ms

la-search-icon.svg

la-search-icon.svg

343 ms

la-envelope-icon.svg

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338 ms

la-facebook-icon.svg

la-facebook-icon.svg

341 ms

la-twitter-icon.svg

la-twitter-icon.svg

369 ms

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368 ms

la-youtube-icon.svg

la-youtube-icon.svg

380 ms

la-pinterest-icon.svg

la-pinterest-icon.svg

370 ms

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187 ms

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302 ms

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126 ms

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167 ms

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36 ms

Accessibility Review

flightsdirect.com accessibility score

70

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

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

flightsdirect.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

flightsdirect.com SEO score

93

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

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