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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

energyswitch.com.au

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Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

753 ms

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Energyswitch.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 753 ms and then it took 9.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

energyswitch.com.au performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

energyswitch.com.au

753 ms

analytics(1).js.download

422 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js.download

466 ms

style.min.css

619 ms

styles.css

566 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Energyswitch.com.au, 4% (4 requests) were made to Web.archive.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Energyswitch.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 772.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Energyswitch.com.au main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 120.7 kB

  • Original 143.4 kB
  • After minification 137.4 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 120.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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. Energyswitch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 416.9 kB

  • Original 999.1 kB
  • After minification 999.1 kB
  • After compression 582.1 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 416.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 150.6 kB

  • Original 436.8 kB
  • After minification 436.4 kB
  • After compression 286.1 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. Energyswitch.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.6 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (68%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Energyswitch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

energyswitch.com.au accessibility score

85

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

energyswitch.com.au best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

energyswitch.com.au SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Energyswitch.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 Energyswitch.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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