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canstar.com.au

Canstar - Australia's Biggest Financial Comparison Site

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

504 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

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About Website

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Canstar is Australia's original & biggest financial comparison site. Our expert ratings help you compare Home Loans, Credit Cards, Health Insurance & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canstar.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 504 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canstar.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

canstar.com.au

504 ms

www.canstar.com.au

737 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

452 ms

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33 ms

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473 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Canstar.com.au, 70% (97 requests) were made to Cdn.canstar.com.au and 2% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.canstar.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 545.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

796.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canstar.com.au main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 614.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 148.3 kB
  • After minification 102.0 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 46.2 kB, which is 31% 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 129.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 614.4 kB
  • After minification 579.2 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. Canstar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 337.6 kB

  • Original 523.3 kB
  • After minification 523.3 kB
  • After compression 185.7 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 337.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 55.6 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. Canstar.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (25%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

96

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canstar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

canstar.com.au SEO score

0

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 Canstar.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 Canstar.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Canstar. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: