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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

alc.edu.au

Australian Lutheran College | Tertiary theological education | Learning for life

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

730 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

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About Website

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Australian Lutheran College provides tertiary theological education for the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand, delivering higher education awards as a college of the University of Divinity,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alc.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 730 ms and then it took 7.3 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

alc.edu.au performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alc.edu.au

730 ms

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1904 ms

gtm.js

137 ms

css

111 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

349 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Alc.edu.au, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Alc.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alc.edu.au main page is 3.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 30.8 kB, which is 38% 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 71.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 251.5 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Alc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 319 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Alc.edu.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alc.edu.au

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730 ms

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1904 ms

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137 ms

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111 ms

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349 ms

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782 ms

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939 ms

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251 ms

Accessibility Review

alc.edu.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

alc.edu.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alc.edu.au SEO score

83

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

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Alc.edu.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 Alc.edu.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

alc.edu.au

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