Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

southernswater.com.au

Southern's Water Technology | All Water Pumps, Irrigation and Water Treatment in WA

Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

339 ms

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About Website

Welcome to southernswater.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Southern S Water best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about southernswater.com.au

We are water technology specialists. Southern’s Water is a major supplier of pumps, tanks, water treatment, filtration and irrigation across Southwest WA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernswater.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 9.8 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

southernswater.com.au performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southernswater.com.au

2080 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

style.css

573 ms

layout.css

691 ms

style.min.css

979 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Southernswater.com.au, 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Southernswater.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Southernswater.com.au main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 853.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 57.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 853.9 kB
  • After minification 842.9 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. Southern S Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 307.9 kB
  • After minification 307.8 kB
  • After compression 298.6 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 196.8 kB
  • After compression 186.2 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. Southernswater.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (80%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern S Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southernswater.com.au accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

southernswater.com.au best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southernswater.com.au SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Southernswater.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 Southernswater.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southern S Water. 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: