Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% 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

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

austlit.edu.au

AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

684 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

491 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Austlit.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 684 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

austlit.edu.au performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

austlit.edu.au

684 ms

www.austlit.edu.au

1338 ms

9a3ed6fc-2d4f-444b-94e2-f5b0115e33b0.css

64 ms

austlitstylebase-21961.min.css

435 ms

austlit-discovery-12927.min.css

870 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Austlit.edu.au, 6% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Austlit.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

846.0 kB

After Optimization

756.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Austlit.edu.au main page is 846.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 552.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 4.6 kB, which is 12% 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 29.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 552.4 kB
  • After minification 541.4 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. Aust Lit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 169.4 kB
  • After minification 169.4 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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 25.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Austlit.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (61%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aust Lit. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

austlit.edu.au 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

austlit.edu.au 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

austlit.edu.au SEO score

89

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

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 Austlit.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 Austlit.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

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