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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theconversation.com.au

The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theconversation.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theconversation.com.au performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

au

52 ms

ebx.js

167 ms

093bc1d11f9a88fa.css

60 ms

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

89 ms

137.f958d6a6f3085891.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Theconversation.com.au, 15% (24 requests) were made to Cdn.theconversation.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Jobs.theconversation.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Images.theconversation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (2%)

Content Size

63.8 MB

After Optimization

62.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theconversation.com.au main page is 63.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 62.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 540.6 kB

  • Original 607.9 kB
  • After minification 607.7 kB
  • After compression 67.3 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 540.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 62.9 MB
  • After minification 61.9 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. The Conversation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 350 B

  • Original 254.4 kB
  • After minification 254.4 kB
  • After compression 254.0 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

-99%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 47 B
  • After compression 47 B

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. Theconversation.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.2 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (15%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

135

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Conversation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

theconversation.com.au accessibility score

88

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

theconversation.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

theconversation.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

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

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