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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

geelongindy.com.au

Geelong Independent | Greater Geelong, Bellarine & Surf Coast

Page Load Speed

14.6 sec in total

First Response

476 ms

Resources Loaded

13.6 sec

Page Rendered

525 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geelongindy.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 476 ms and then it took 14.1 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

geelongindy.com.au performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geelongindy.com.au

476 ms

geelongindy.com.au

2709 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

678 ms

style.min.css

674 ms

style.css

679 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Geelongindy.com.au, 6% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Geelongindy.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 602.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geelongindy.com.au main page is 6.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 256.2 kB
  • After minification 234.1 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 223.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Geelong Indy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 325.4 kB

  • Original 630.3 kB
  • After minification 630.3 kB
  • After compression 304.8 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 325.4 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 144.1 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 121.0 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. Geelongindy.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (25%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geelong Indy. 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

geelongindy.com.au accessibility score

95

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.

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

geelongindy.com.au best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

geelongindy.com.au SEO score

90

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Geelongindy.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 Geelongindy.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 Geelong Indy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: