Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

m.skyscanner.com

Skyscanner

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.skyscanner.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 5 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

m.skyscanner.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,540 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.skyscanner.net

215 ms

www.skyscanner.com

1348 ms

core.7e13d7e9.css

37 ms

home_root.css

29 ms

provider_logos.0ac7f737fbfffedbeeffe4e4e61bc9d5.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original M.skyscanner.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Api.mixpanel.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Js.skyscnr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Ads-static-content-prod.prod.aws.skyscnr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 937.1 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

623.9 kB

In fact, the total size of M.skyscanner.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 981.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 65.5 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 53.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 133.0 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. M Skyscanner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 656.9 kB

  • Original 981.7 kB
  • After minification 981.0 kB
  • After compression 324.8 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 656.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 223.6 kB

  • Original 371.8 kB
  • After minification 371.6 kB
  • After compression 148.2 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. M.skyscanner.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 223.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (69%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Skyscanner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

m.skyscanner.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

m.skyscanner.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m.skyscanner.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise M.skyscanner.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that M.skyscanner.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 M Skyscanner. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: