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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

utilities.com.au

Utilities: Compare Electricity & Gas energy price online

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

856 ms

Resources Loaded

879 ms

Page Rendered

64 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Utilities.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 856 ms and then it took 943 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Utilities.com.au rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

utilities.com.au performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

utilities.com.au

856 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Utilities.com.au and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (856 ms) belongs to the original domain Utilities.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Utilities.com.au main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 721.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 323 B

  • Original 781 B
  • After minification 769 B
  • After compression 458 B

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 323 B or 41% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 57.3 kB

  • Original 721.4 kB
  • After minification 664.1 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. Utilities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 446.2 kB
  • After minification 446.2 kB
  • After compression 343.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 103.2 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Utilities.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

utilities.com.au accessibility score

75

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

utilities.com.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

utilities.com.au SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Utilities.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 Utilities.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Utilities. 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: