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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

astar.com.au

Top Recruitment Agency Australia

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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About Website

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Top Recruitment Agency Austalia | Delivers recruitment solutions for Industrial Industries. Permanent, Temporary & Contract Hiring

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Key Findings

We analyzed Astar.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 10.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

astar.com.au performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.astar.com.au

2212 ms

gtm.js

76 ms

style.min.css

214 ms

classic-themes.min.css

424 ms

styles.css

622 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Astar.com.au, 15% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Astar.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Astar.com.au main page is 4.1 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 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 108.3 kB
  • After minification 105.4 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 89.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Astar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 85.2 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 14.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 102.8 kB
  • After compression 79.8 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. Astar.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (43%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Astar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.astar.com.au

www.astar.com.au

2212 ms

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gtm.js

76 ms

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style.min.css

214 ms

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classic-themes.min.css

424 ms

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styles.css

622 ms

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crellyslider.min.css

635 ms

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testimonial-slider.css

637 ms

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1492 ms

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1494 ms

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1493 ms

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1686 ms

gtm.js

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47 ms

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291 ms

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292 ms

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825 ms

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869 ms

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1239 ms

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1079 ms

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1290 ms

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1298 ms

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1302 ms

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1447 ms

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1501 ms

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ASTAR_HSP_EV_2023_Logo_footer-1.png

1466 ms

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1470 ms

ASTAR_HR_2023_Logo_footer.png

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1475 ms

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1615 ms

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2094 ms

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1672 ms

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1514 ms

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2218 ms

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2001 ms

Accessibility Review

astar.com.au accessibility score

82

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

astar.com.au best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

astar.com.au SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Astar.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 Astar.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

astar.com.au

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Astar. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: