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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

mesa.edu.au

Marine Education Society of Australasia

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

519 ms

Page Rendered

481 ms

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About Website

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The Marine Education Society of Australasia (MESA) aims to develop the understanding, wise use and appreciation of marine environments in the Australian Pacific Region. MESA produces a range of resour...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mesa.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 1000 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mesa.edu.au performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.589

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mesa.edu.au

195 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

98 ms

mainN.css

83 ms

slideshow.css

85 ms

mootools.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Mesa.edu.au, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (242 ms) belongs to the original domain Mesa.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

384.8 kB

After Optimization

290.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mesa.edu.au main page is 384.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 260.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 7.3 kB, which is 15% 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 38.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 260.2 kB
  • After minification 253.8 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. Mesa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 70.5 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 45.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 955 B

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. Mesa.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mesa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

mesa.edu.au

mesa.edu.au

195 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

98 ms

mainN.css

mainN.css

83 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

85 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

86 ms

visualslideshow.js

visualslideshow.js

83 ms

swissarmy.js

swissarmy.js

86 ms

mesa.css

mesa.css

130 ms

brand

brand

18 ms

brand

brand

39 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

14 ms

left.gif

left.gif

48 ms

stop.gif

stop.gif

48 ms

play.gif

play.gif

50 ms

right.gif

right.gif

49 ms

gradient_background.gif

gradient_background.gif

49 ms

headerN.gif

headerN.gif

50 ms

peter_biro.jpg

peter_biro.jpg

98 ms

seaweek.png

seaweek.png

134 ms

banner600.jpg

banner600.jpg

104 ms

call_sea.jpg

call_sea.jpg

104 ms

Asian_musselM.jpg

Asian_musselM.jpg

103 ms

Victorian-saltmarshM.jpg

Victorian-saltmarshM.jpg

83 ms

blobfishM.jpg

blobfishM.jpg

118 ms

Halophila_decipiens-RTanM.jpg

Halophila_decipiens-RTanM.jpg

131 ms

Daintree-River-MangrovesM.jpg

Daintree-River-MangrovesM.jpg

139 ms

green_turtle-DMeyersM.jpg

green_turtle-DMeyersM.jpg

140 ms

Pentapora_fascialis.jpg

Pentapora_fascialis.jpg

141 ms

olive_sea_snake_RLM.jpg

olive_sea_snake_RLM.jpg

164 ms

Mastophora_rosea-DKM.jpg

Mastophora_rosea-DKM.jpg

165 ms

black_smoker.jpg

black_smoker.jpg

167 ms

tiger_flatwormM.jpg

tiger_flatwormM.jpg

171 ms

salp-STM.jpg

salp-STM.jpg

172 ms

Mosaic-LeatherjacketM.jpg

Mosaic-LeatherjacketM.jpg

172 ms

barrel_sponge-BemepM.jpg

barrel_sponge-BemepM.jpg

186 ms

moon_jelly-JOM.jpg

moon_jelly-JOM.jpg

198 ms

mantis-shrimpC.jpg

mantis-shrimpC.jpg

200 ms

feather_starS.jpg

feather_starS.jpg

206 ms

nudibranchS.jpg

nudibranchS.jpg

209 ms

Ocean-Trout-farmingS.jpg

Ocean-Trout-farmingS.jpg

209 ms

splash_crab.gif

splash_crab.gif

219 ms

J13.jpg

J13.jpg

230 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

234 ms

spiderbyte.gif

spiderbyte.gif

239 ms

top.gif

top.gif

242 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

tab_header.gif

tab_header.gif

203 ms

logo_mesa.png

logo_mesa.png

217 ms

sw01.jpg

sw01.jpg

225 ms

Accessibility Review

mesa.edu.au accessibility score

59

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.

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

mesa.edu.au 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mesa.edu.au SEO score

54

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mesa.edu.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Mesa.edu.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

mesa.edu.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mesa. 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: