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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thesignalco.com.au

The Signal Co. Wireless | Fast, Reliable and Affordable Broadband

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

About Website

Visit thesignalco.com.au now to see the best up-to-date The Signal Co content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thesignalco.com.au

After becoming frustrated with the major carriers, we decided to offer Canberra and the region something different. Fast, Reliable and Affordable Broadband.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesignalco.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesignalco.com.au performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesignalco.com.au

64 ms

thesignalco.com.au

1460 ms

js

30 ms

style.min.css

261 ms

styles.css

645 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Thesignalco.com.au, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesignalco.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesignalco.com.au main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 71.9 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 56.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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 Signal Co images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 417.3 kB
  • After minification 417.3 kB
  • After compression 414.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 37 B

  • Original 300.4 kB
  • After minification 300.4 kB
  • After compression 300.4 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. Thesignalco.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (85%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Signal Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thesignalco.com.au accessibility score

80

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thesignalco.com.au best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thesignalco.com.au SEO score

100

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