Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

melbournewater.com.au

Home | Melbourne Water

Page Load Speed

550 ms in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

323 ms

Page Rendered

67 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Melbournewater.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 390 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Melbournewater.com.au rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

melbournewater.com.au performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

melbournewater.com.au

160 ms

vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Melbournewater.com.au, 50% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (160 ms) belongs to the original domain Melbournewater.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Melbournewater.com.au main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 981.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 2.8 kB or 27% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 92.9 kB

  • Original 981.2 kB
  • After minification 888.3 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. Melbourne Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 694.8 kB

  • Original 958.6 kB
  • After minification 859.1 kB
  • After compression 263.8 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 694.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 266.5 kB

  • Original 320.1 kB
  • After minification 317.8 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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. Melbournewater.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 266.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Melbourne Water. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

melbournewater.com.au accessibility score

96

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

melbournewater.com.au best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

melbournewater.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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Melbournewater.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 Melbournewater.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 Melbourne Water. 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: