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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

compareenergy.com.au

Electricity & Gas Comparison in a few easy steps | Compare Energy

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

About Website

Visit compareenergy.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Compare Energy content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about compareenergy.com.au

CompareEnergy.com.au is a free electricity and gas comparison service that helps you connect or switch to your preferred energy suppliers in Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Compareenergy.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 6.1 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

compareenergy.com.au performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

compareenergy.com.au

25 ms

compareenergy.com.au

945 ms

www.compareenergy.com.au

1353 ms

bootstrap

1280 ms

bootstrap-datepicker-css

863 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Compareenergy.com.au, 28% (15 requests) were made to Static.compareenergy.com.au and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Static.compareenergy.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

525.7 kB

After Optimization

430.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Compareenergy.com.au main page is 525.7 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 449.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 14.7 kB, which is 23% 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 51.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 44.1 kB

  • Original 449.5 kB
  • After minification 405.4 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. Compare Energy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (50%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Energy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 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

compareenergy.com.au accessibility score

90

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

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

compareenergy.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

compareenergy.com.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Compareenergy.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 Compareenergy.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 Compare Energy. 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: