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melbournefestival.com.au

Home - 2018 Melbourne International Arts Festival

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

610 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

About Website

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Melbourne International Arts Festival—formerly Melbourne Festival—is at the heart of the city’s culture of creativity.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Melbournefestival.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 610 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

melbournefestival.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

melbournefestival.com.au

610 ms

www.festival.melbourne

1621 ms

bootstrap.min.css

471 ms

ekko-lightbox.min.css

687 ms

datepicker3.css

689 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Melbournefestival.com.au, 76% (42 requests) were made to Festival.melbourne and 5% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Festival.melbourne.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 657.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Melbournefestival.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 6.8 kB, which is 23% 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 22.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Melbourne Festival images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 382.9 kB

  • Original 516.2 kB
  • After minification 390.1 kB
  • After compression 133.3 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 382.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 239.7 kB

  • Original 298.2 kB
  • After minification 295.9 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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. Melbournefestival.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 239.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (50%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Melbourne Festival. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

melbournefestival.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Melbournefestival.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Melbournefestival.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 Melbourne Festival. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: