Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au

Queensland Skills Gateway: Department of Youth Justice, Employment, Small Business and Training

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

856 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 856 ms and then it took 4.2 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

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au

856 ms

google-fontface-lato.css

205 ms

style.css

1045 ms

jquery.min.js

1051 ms

select2.css

841 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

551.4 kB

After Optimization

409.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au main page is 551.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 424.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 7.2 kB, which is 27% 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 21.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 107.0 kB

  • Original 424.6 kB
  • After minification 317.5 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. Obviously, Skills Gateway Training Qld Gov needs image optimization as it can save up to 107.0 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 69.2 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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 8.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (41%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skills Gateway Training Qld Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.au SEO score

88

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.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 Skillsgateway.training.qld.gov.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 Skills Gateway Training Qld Gov. 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: