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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ausbale.org

Home - Australasian Straw Bale Building Association

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

720 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

542 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ausbale.org page load time and found that the first response time was 720 ms and then it took 7.7 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

ausbale.org performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.244

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ausbale.org

720 ms

news.php

1177 ms

news.php

745 ms

styles.css

709 ms

jscript.js

478 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ausbale.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Ausbale.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

724.4 kB

After Optimization

529.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ausbale.org main page is 724.4 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 478.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. 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 37.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 478.9 kB
  • After minification 456.8 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. Aus Bale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 121.6 kB

  • Original 180.0 kB
  • After minification 173.3 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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 121.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Ausbale.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (45%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aus Bale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ausbale.org

ausbale.org

720 ms

news.php

news.php

1177 ms

news.php

news.php

745 ms

styles.css

styles.css

709 ms

jscript.js

jscript.js

478 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

946 ms

highslide.js

highslide.js

702 ms

highslide.css

highslide.css

486 ms

rokstyle.css

rokstyle.css

684 ms

mootools-release-1.11.js

mootools-release-1.11.js

1398 ms

rokslideshow.js

rokslideshow.js

962 ms

body-bg.jpg

body-bg.jpg

244 ms

header-bg.jpg

header-bg.jpg

238 ms

favicon.ico

favicon.ico

240 ms

login.png

login.png

236 ms

ausbale-300.jpg

ausbale-300.jpg

931 ms

white_header_left.gif

white_header_left.gif

237 ms

white_header_right.gif

white_header_right.gif

472 ms

sublinks.jpg

sublinks.jpg

472 ms

border-stanga.gif

border-stanga.gif

476 ms

left-tc.jpg

left-tc.jpg

479 ms

right-tc.jpg

right-tc.jpg

479 ms

welcome_message_panel.png

welcome_message_panel.png

708 ms

news.jpg

news.jpg

709 ms

author.gif

author.gif

707 ms

comments.gif

comments.gif

711 ms

printer.png

printer.png

712 ms

ausbale.jpg

ausbale.jpg

937 ms

workshop.jpg

workshop.jpg

947 ms

conference_stamp_-_copy_t2.jpg

conference_stamp_-_copy_t2.jpg

944 ms

conferencelogo2.jpg

conferencelogo2.jpg

1405 ms

event.jpg

event.jpg

1170 ms

s-border.gif

s-border.gif

1159 ms

viva-strawbale-earth-house04_t1.jpg

viva-strawbale-earth-house04_t1.jpg

1171 ms

panel_off.gif

panel_off.gif

1174 ms

latest_comments_panel.png

latest_comments_panel.png

1175 ms

no-avatar.jpg

no-avatar.jpg

1395 ms

wink.gif

wink.gif

1544 ms

news1.gif

news1.gif

1442 ms

news-dreapta.gif

news-dreapta.gif

1440 ms

news2.gif

news2.gif

1441 ms

news-dreapta-jos.gif

news-dreapta-jos.gif

1692 ms

pagenav.gif

pagenav.gif

1688 ms

zoomin.cur

zoomin.cur

1676 ms

blue-corner.jpg

blue-corner.jpg

1686 ms

left-bc.jpg

left-bc.jpg

1646 ms

right-bc.jpg

right-bc.jpg

1717 ms

border-dreapta.gif

border-dreapta.gif

1706 ms

line.jpg

line.jpg

1712 ms

footernav-stanga.jpg

footernav-stanga.jpg

1713 ms

line2.jpg

line2.jpg

1712 ms

sublink-stanga.gif

sublink-stanga.gif

1721 ms

sublink-dreapta.gif

sublink-dreapta.gif

1546 ms

footernav-dreapta.jpg

footernav-dreapta.jpg

1700 ms

footbg.gif

footbg.gif

1702 ms

drop-shadow.png

drop-shadow.png

232 ms

zoomout.cur

zoomout.cur

233 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

233 ms

graemenorth.jpg

graemenorth.jpg

465 ms

wlw.jpg

wlw.jpg

237 ms

unicorn.jpg

unicorn.jpg

699 ms

hnp7.jpg

hnp7.jpg

262 ms

wlw2.jpg

wlw2.jpg

721 ms

ps3.jpg

ps3.jpg

268 ms

viva1.jpg

viva1.jpg

702 ms

ytt9.jpg

ytt9.jpg

719 ms

wda101.jpg

wda101.jpg

501 ms

bdco1.jpg

bdco1.jpg

922 ms

redfern.jpg

redfern.jpg

733 ms

viva4.jpg

viva4.jpg

1164 ms

Accessibility Review

ausbale.org accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ausbale.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ausbale.org SEO score

92

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ausbale.org 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 Ausbale.org 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

ausbale.org

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