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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

blog.localsearch.com.au

Localsearch Blog | Lifestyle & Trades Tips & Advice

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

884 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.localsearch.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 884 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.localsearch.com.au performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.localsearch.com.au

884 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

24 ms

style.min.css

51 ms

cff-style.min.css

61 ms

font-awesome.min.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.localsearch.com.au, 16% (8 requests) were made to and 10% (5 requests) were made to Localsearch.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Blog.localsearch.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

499.7 kB

After Optimization

440.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.localsearch.com.au main page is 499.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 275.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 57.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 275.7 kB
  • After minification 273.8 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. Blog Localsearch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 216 B

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 362 B

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Blog.localsearch.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (34%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Localsearch. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blog.localsearch.com.au accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

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

blog.localsearch.com.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.localsearch.com.au SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Blog.localsearch.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 Blog.localsearch.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 Blog Localsearch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: