Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

cairnsconnect.com

Cairns Connect - Online Guide to Cairns. Accommodation, attractions, entertainment & more.

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

695 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cairnsconnect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 695 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cairnsconnect.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,760 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cairnsconnect.com

695 ms

cairnsconnect.com

829 ms

generic.css

206 ms

urchin.js

19 ms

__utm.gif

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Cairnsconnect.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cairnsconnect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

83.7 kB

After Optimization

59.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cairnsconnect.com main page is 83.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 30.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 5.3 kB, which is 20% 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 22.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.8 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. Cairns Connect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 279 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Cairnsconnect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 279 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cairns Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cairnsconnect.com accessibility score

49

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cairnsconnect.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cairnsconnect.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cairnsconnect.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cairnsconnect.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cairns Connect. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: