In this article, we take a look at the performance of the leaders in online tourism. Which of Lastminute, Promovacances, Opodo or Expedia has the best technical performance? Take a quick look at our rankings!
We carried out our tests on the homepage, a category page and a product page of each of the above-mentioned sites.
For each page, we ran 20 tests and considered the medians (to eliminate extreme values).
Loading speed of desktop sites
Test conditions :
Test tool: webpagetest
Connection: 7 Mbps (average French ADSL)
Browser: Chrome
| Ranking | Start Render | Speed Index | Loading time | Weight | Requests | |
| Look Voyages | 1 | 1,51 | 2509 | 4,88 | 862 | 50 |
| Returns | 2 | 1,11 | 2545 | 9,53 | 5343 | 125 |
| Go Voyages | 3 | 1,07 | 2653 | 3,53 | 2127 | 128 |
| Havas Voyages | 4 | 2,18 | 2717 | 5,47 | 2422 | 121 |
| Promovacances | 5 | 1,11 | 3074 | 6,58 | 2378 | 363 |
| Last Minute | 6 | 1,4 | 3325 | 11,76 | 6649 | 172 |
| Fram | 7 | 0,98 | 3553 | 4,18 | 1331 | 93 |
| Expedia | 8 | 2,29 | 3672 | 6,68 | 1730 | 152 |
| Thomas Cook | 9 | 2,2 | 4344 | 8,28 | 2996 | 253 |
| Opodo | 10 | 1,2 | 4687 | 3,97 | 2608 | 144 |
| Overall average | 1,51 | 3308,02 | 6,49 | 2844,47 | 160,15 |
As a reminder:
Start Render is the moment when the white page gives way to the first elements of the web page.
The Speed Index highlights the rate at which elements above the waterline are displayed.
