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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

switch.efax.com.au

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Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switch.efax.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

switch.efax.com.au performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,190 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switch.efax.com.au

107 ms

www.efax.com

377 ms

21362261371.js

46 ms

bootstrap.css

63 ms

style.min.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Switch.efax.com.au, 96% (135 requests) were made to Efax.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Cdn.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) relates to the external source Efax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Switch.efax.com.au main page is 2.9 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 217.3 kB

  • Original 260.0 kB
  • After minification 234.5 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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 217.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Switch EFax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 989 B

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 134.6 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 98.2 kB
  • After compression 93.1 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. Switch.efax.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (38%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

82

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switch EFax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

switch.efax.com.au accessibility score

93

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

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

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

switch.efax.com.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

switch.efax.com.au SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Switch.efax.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 Switch.efax.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 data is detected on the main page of Switch EFax. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: