Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

boarddirection.com.au

Board Direction: Putting People on Boards & Board Vacancies

Page Load Speed

33.8 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

28.7 sec

Page Rendered

999 ms

boarddirection.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to boarddirection.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Board Direction best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about boarddirection.com.au

Board Direction advertises the largest and most diverse list of non-executive board vacancies in Australia and equips you to get 'board ready'.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boarddirection.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 29.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

boarddirection.com.au performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.998

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boarddirection.com.au

4073 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

864 ms

jquery-ui.css

85 ms

frontend.css

887 ms

chosen.css

869 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Boarddirection.com.au, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Boarddirection.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (31%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Boarddirection.com.au main page is 3.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 68.4 kB

  • Original 83.9 kB
  • After minification 72.6 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.3 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 68.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 414.9 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Board Direction needs image optimization as it can save up to 414.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 279.2 kB

  • Original 420.8 kB
  • After minification 408.5 kB
  • After compression 141.5 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 279.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 352.9 kB

  • Original 417.4 kB
  • After minification 357.5 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Boarddirection.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 352.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (61%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Board Direction. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boarddirection.com.au accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

boarddirection.com.au 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

SEO Factors

boarddirection.com.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 Boarddirection.com.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 Boarddirection.com.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 Board Direction. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: