Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

bradfordsolar.com.au

Bradford Energy - Top Volume Solar Retailer for 2019

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

411 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

77 ms

About Website

Visit bradfordsolar.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Bradford Solar content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bradfordsolar.com.au

Bradford Energy is in the Top 10 Companies in all Australia for capacity of residential solar power installed in 2019. We only use the highest quality, most efficient technology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bradfordsolar.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 411 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bradfordsolar.com.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bradfordsolar.com.au

411 ms

www.bradfordenergy.com.au

981 ms

main.css

430 ms

custom.css

636 ms

magnific-popup.css

635 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bradfordsolar.com.au, 83% (24 requests) were made to Bradfordenergy.com.au and 7% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Bradfordenergy.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 545.7 kB (66%)

Content Size

826.0 kB

After Optimization

280.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Bradfordsolar.com.au main page is 826.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 473.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.2 kB, which is 16% 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 10.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 12.5 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. Bradford Solar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 244.3 kB

  • Original 473.9 kB
  • After minification 434.2 kB
  • After compression 229.5 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 244.3 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 291.2 kB

  • Original 326.2 kB
  • After minification 236.3 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Bradfordsolar.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 291.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (59%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bradford Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bradfordsolar.com.au accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bradfordsolar.com.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

bradfordsolar.com.au SEO score

81

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bradfordsolar.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bradfordsolar.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 Bradford Solar. 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: