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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

pcfa.org.au

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia | PCFA

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

About Website

Visit pcfa.org.au now to see the best up-to-date PCFA content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pcfa.org.au

PCFA is a broad based community organisation dedicated to reducing the impact of prostate cancer on Australian men, their partners and families

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pcfa.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 6.6 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

pcfa.org.au performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pcfa.org.au

1982 ms

main.css

1836 ms

fluid-grid-10col.css

1383 ms

simplelightbox.min.css

465 ms

modernizr-min.js

927 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Pcfa.org.au, 8% (9 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Pcfa.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 902.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pcfa.org.au main page is 3.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 132.8 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 22.3 kB, which is 17% 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 105.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 125.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. PCFA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 483.7 kB

  • Original 697.4 kB
  • After minification 644.0 kB
  • After compression 213.7 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 483.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 188.3 kB

  • Original 213.6 kB
  • After minification 168.2 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Pcfa.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 188.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (22%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

88

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PCFA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pcfa.org.au accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

pcfa.org.au best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pcfa.org.au SEO score

75

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 Pcfa.org.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 Pcfa.org.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 PCFA. 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: