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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202622 issues · 99 checks

This review found 22 issues worth fixing on finnlines.com, 8 of them high impact, across 99 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.7 s1.2 sMay 9Oct 241.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20261.3 s
May 16, 20261.3 s
May 23, 20261.3 s
May 30, 20261.3 s
Jun 6, 20261.4 s
Jun 13, 20261.4 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.4 s
Jul 4, 20261.4 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.5 s
Aug 8, 20261.6 s
Aug 15, 20261.7 s
Aug 22, 20261.7 s
Aug 29, 20261.6 s
Sep 5, 20261.5 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.4 s
Oct 17, 20261.4 s
Oct 24, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
169 ms146 msMay 9Oct 24163 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026151 ms
May 16, 2026150 ms
May 23, 2026149 ms
May 30, 2026150 ms
Jun 6, 2026150 ms
Jun 13, 2026150 ms
Jun 20, 2026150 ms
Jun 27, 2026150 ms
Jul 4, 2026151 ms
Jul 11, 2026152 ms
Jul 18, 2026153 ms
Jul 25, 2026154 ms
Aug 1, 2026154 ms
Aug 8, 2026156 ms
Aug 15, 2026159 ms
Aug 22, 2026161 ms
Aug 29, 2026162 ms
Sep 5, 2026163 ms
Sep 12, 2026163 ms
Sep 19, 2026165 ms
Sep 26, 2026166 ms
Oct 3, 2026164 ms
Oct 10, 2026163 ms
Oct 17, 2026163 ms
Oct 24, 2026163 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of finnlines.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. finnlines.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. finnlines.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. finnlines.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. finnlines.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. finnlines.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  6. finnlines.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  7. finnlines.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. finnlines.com at 3.9 s3.9 s

finnlines.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

5 to fix58
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.3 s

    42 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 58

    58/100

    Your mobile performance score is 58. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    780 ms · 189 KiB

    About 189 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 780 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    250 ms · 270 KiB

    5 images could be 270 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2,811 HTML elements

    The page has 2,811 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    250 ms · 42 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 42 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    250 ms · 34 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (34 KiB).

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Cookiebot, custobar.com and Google Analytics), adding 182 KiB and 243 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    180 ms · 72 KiB

    About 72 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 180 ms faster on a phone.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 148 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 751 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.1 s

    9.1 s

    Your largest element takes 9.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.8 s

    9.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.7 s

    3.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 253 ms

    253 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 253 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +8%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 151 ms to 163 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 146 ms

    146 ms

    Real visitors wait 146 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 454 ms

    454 ms

    Real visitors wait 454 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.025

    0.025

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.025, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.48 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.48 g of CO₂e: 57.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.7 MB in 87 requests

    1.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.7 MB in 87 requests on a phone: scripts 740 KiB (33), fonts 461 KiB (7) and images 380 KiB (13). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 8593
  • 4 buttons without a name

    4 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • Required ARIA attributes must be provided (1 element)

    Required ARIA attributes must be provided: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 3 text elements with low contrast

    3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 21 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 48 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9298
  • 8 links with vague text

    8 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 162 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 162 pages on finnlines.com and 14 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 123 characters

    Your meta description is 123 characters: “Finnlines offers sustainable ferry trips and cruises in the Baltic Sea, while ensuring cargo transportation across the …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Experience autumn at sea”.

  • Title: 64 characters

    Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “Finnlines' Ferry trips and Cruises in the Baltic Sea - Finnlines”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.finnlines.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.finnlines.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,042 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (11 KiB, 86 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /freight and /company/sustainability have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 101 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    12 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (finnlines.com).

  • Valid certificate (79 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for finnlines.com and is valid for another 79 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://finnlines.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 53 links work

    All 53 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 13 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    finnlines.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    finnlines.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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  • Domain is 29 years old

    29 years

    finnlines.com was registered in Mar 1997 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Mar 2027

    finnlines.com is registered until Mar 2027.

Content and conversion

5 to fix64
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 725 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 725 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “BOOK NOW”.

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Contact us”, “Book trip” and “Get a quote”.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be finnlines.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 ip4:194.240.133.10 ip4:194.240.133.26 ip4:194.100.61.161 ip4:194.100.61.180 include:spf.lianamailer.com include:…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “k1” and “mandrill”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 4 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

    A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.

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