Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mychemist.com.au

Online Chemist for Vitamins, Supplements, Beauty, Health - My Chemist

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.9 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

mychemist.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit mychemist.com.au now to see the best up-to-date My Chemist content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mychemist.com.au

Shop Online for over 10,000 Vitamin, Weight Loss, Medicine, Beauty & More Health Products. Established in 1973, My Chemist now has 40+ stores across Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mychemist.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mychemist.com.au performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Default.asp

1885 ms

Min_home_2014_new.css

1574 ms

min_home_Dec2015.js

2091 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

1307 ms

sdk.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (114 requests) were addressed to the original Mychemist.com.au, 3% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Mychemist.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.1 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Mychemist.com.au main page is 1.9 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 110.3 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 22.2 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 93.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. My Chemist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 378.4 kB

  • Original 569.8 kB
  • After minification 533.4 kB
  • After compression 191.4 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 378.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 125.2 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. Mychemist.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (25%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Chemist. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mychemist.com.au accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mychemist.com.au best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mychemist.com.au SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Mychemist.com.au 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 Mychemist.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 My Chemist. 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: