Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

abc.net.au

ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

abc.net.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to abc.net.au homepage info - get ready to check ABC best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about abc.net.au

Your home of Australian stories, conversations and events that shape our nation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Abc.net.au page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

abc.net.au performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.321

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.abc.net.au

98 ms

gtm.js

80 ms

d8fdbb7a9cc6db33.css

36 ms

6562ac0a59ba785e.css

40 ms

0b4a220000929b94.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Abc.net.au, 32% (16 requests) were made to Live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.chartbeat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (515 ms) relates to the external source Live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Abc.net.au main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 183.1 kB

  • Original 231.8 kB
  • After minification 231.8 kB
  • After compression 48.8 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 183.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB

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. ABC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 123.9 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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 59.4 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (59%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ABC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

abc.net.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

abc.net.au 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

abc.net.au SEO score

100

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

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 Abc.net.au 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 Abc.net.au 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 ABC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: