Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

flixbus.nl

FlixBus: Convenient and affordable bus travel in the US

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flixbus.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 3.4 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

flixbus.nl performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flixbus.nl

104 ms

www.flixbus.nl

221 ms

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27 ms

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22 ms

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17 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Flixbus.nl, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (967 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.onthe.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (72%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Flixbus.nl main page is 4.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 575.9 kB

  • Original 679.5 kB
  • After minification 674.3 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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 575.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 531.0 kB
  • After minification 476.9 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. Flix Bus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 595.6 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 2.1 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 486.7 kB

  • Original 561.1 kB
  • After minification 554.8 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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. Flixbus.nl needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 486.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (68%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flix Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

flixbus.nl accessibility score

88

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

flixbus.nl best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

flixbus.nl 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

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flixbus.nl can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Dutch language. Our system also found out that Flixbus.nl 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 description is not detected on the main page of Flix Bus. 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: