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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

chemistdirect.com.au

Australia's Leading Online Discount Pharmacy - Chemist Direct

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chemistdirect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chemistdirect.com.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.chemistdirect.com.au

33 ms

a42428fba125032be9e794ea93b5393a.min.css

10 ms

styles-l.min.css

33 ms

require.min.js

43 ms

disabled.min.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 348 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (322 requests) were addressed to the original Chemistdirect.com.au, 1% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to D21gpk1vhmjuf5.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Cfjump.chemistdirect.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 780.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chemistdirect.com.au main page is 2.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 721.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 782.4 kB
  • After compression 283.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 223.3 kB, which is 22% 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 721.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 355.1 kB
  • After minification 349.6 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. Chemist Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 588.6 kB
  • After minification 586.2 kB
  • After compression 535.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 309.4 kB
  • After minification 309.4 kB
  • After compression 309.2 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. Chemistdirect.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 290 (85%)

Requests Now

341

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 341 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chemist Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 287 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

chemistdirect.com.au accessibility score

73

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

chemistdirect.com.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

chemistdirect.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

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 doesn't use 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 Chemistdirect.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 Chemistdirect.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 Chemist Direct. 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: