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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

northonline.com.au

North - A better way

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northonline.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northonline.com.au performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northonline.com.au

24 ms

satelliteLib-b8612d9fa560e8cc678650e6fc53bdddb41efd20.js

40 ms

clientlib-cfvariables.lc-b9c0438e2b036841ded39be38a3579ac-lc.css

8 ms

clientlib-cfvariables.lc-454b6d81e16875820ea465cd2d98c407-lc.js

21 ms

clientlibs.lc-c57aead05715b554ae11aa7f55cf343f-lc.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Northonline.com.au, 12% (13 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Northonline.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (64%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northonline.com.au main page is 3.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 76.9 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 27.6 kB, which is 31% 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 76.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 319.8 kB
  • After minification 299.3 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. North Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 757.6 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 1.1 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 873.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 905.8 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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. Northonline.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 873.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (77%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northonline.com.au accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northonline.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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

northonline.com.au SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northonline.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 Northonline.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 description is not detected on the main page of North Online. 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: