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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

firstmac.com.au

Firstmac: Home Loans, Mortgages, Investments and Equipment Finance

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

433 ms

About Website

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

Firstmac Limited is 100% Australian owned with over 40 years of experience in home and investment loans which makes us a great alternative to the major banks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstmac.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 6.6 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

firstmac.com.au performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,200 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstmac.com.au

445 ms

www.firstmac.com.au

1237 ms

gtm.js

81 ms

all.min.css

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Firstmac.com.au, 23% (10 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstmac.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Firstmac.com.au main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 71.9 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 22.4 kB, which is 24% 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 66.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 892.0 kB
  • After minification 888.7 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. Firstmac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstmac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

firstmac.com.au accessibility score

72

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

firstmac.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

firstmac.com.au SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Firstmac.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 Firstmac.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 Firstmac. 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: