Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

526 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Interestratecomparison.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 526 ms and then it took 5.4 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

interestratecomparison.com.au performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

interestratecomparison.com.au

526 ms

ads.js

474 ms

styles_2col.css

471 ms

plusone.js

32 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

488 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Interestratecomparison.com.au, 14% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Apis.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.4 kB (65%)

Content Size

399.3 kB

After Optimization

139.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Interestratecomparison.com.au main page is 399.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 310.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 31.7 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. 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 23.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 35.3 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. Interestratecomparison images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 217.1 kB

  • Original 310.9 kB
  • After minification 273.1 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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 217.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Interestratecomparison.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (59%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Interestratecomparison. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

interestratecomparison.com.au accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

interestratecomparison.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

interestratecomparison.com.au SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • 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 Interestratecomparison.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Interestratecomparison.com.au 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 Interestratecomparison. 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: