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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

southerncrossgroup.com.au

SCIG - Southern Cross Industrial Group - Ag, Mining & More!

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

235 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

707 ms

About Website

Visit southerncrossgroup.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Southern Cross Group content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about southerncrossgroup.com.au

SCIG (Southern Cross Industrial Group) stock a wide range of agricultural, mining and civil equipment and supplies both online and at our facility in Mackay, Queensland!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncrossgroup.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 235 ms and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerncrossgroup.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerncrossgroup.com.au

235 ms

southerncrossgroup.com.au

283 ms

02e2d207e1.js

87 ms

vxl8qon.css

97 ms

gravity-forms-theme-reset.min.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncrossgroup.com.au, 5% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncrossgroup.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southerncrossgroup.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. 80% 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. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 241.9 kB

  • Original 292.6 kB
  • After minification 289.8 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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 241.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Southern Cross Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 602.3 kB
  • After minification 602.0 kB
  • After compression 590.9 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 243.9 kB
  • After minification 233.8 kB
  • After compression 228.5 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. Southerncrossgroup.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (72%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Cross Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southerncrossgroup.com.au accessibility score

85

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

southerncrossgroup.com.au best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southerncrossgroup.com.au SEO score

93

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

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 Southerncrossgroup.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 Southerncrossgroup.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 Southern Cross Group. 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: