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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thecast.com.au

Live Music | Adelaide & Australia wide | The Cast band

Page Load Speed

872 ms in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

685 ms

Page Rendered

60 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Cast content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thecast.com.au

Your event will not be boring! The Cast is a premium corporate and events party band, proving live music and creative performances, based in Adelaide. Performs Australia wide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecast.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 745 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecast.com.au performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thecast.com.au

127 ms

minified.js

33 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

32 ms

polyfill.min.js

31 ms

thunderbolt-commons.ef342c25.bundle.min.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecast.com.au, 37% (16 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 28% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (333 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 354.8 kB (50%)

Content Size

714.0 kB

After Optimization

359.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thecast.com.au main page is 714.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 390.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 298.0 kB

  • Original 390.6 kB
  • After minification 388.8 kB
  • After compression 92.6 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 298.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 10.7 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. Obviously, The Cast needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 310.4 kB
  • After minification 310.4 kB
  • After compression 255.8 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 54.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Cast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thecast.com.au accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

thecast.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

thecast.com.au SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thecast.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 Thecast.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 The Cast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: