Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

wearegc.com.au

We Are Gold Coast | Discover business opportunities, and local life

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wearegc.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wearegc.com.au performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,090 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wearegc.com.au

54 ms

refresh

482 ms

style.css

243 ms

ivory-search.min.css

484 ms

dashicons.min.css

1146 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wearegc.com.au, 46% (33 requests) were made to Wearegoldcoast.com.au and 14% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Wearegoldcoast.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (77%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

597.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Wearegc.com.au main page is 2.6 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. CSS take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 212.1 kB
  • After minification 210.3 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 190.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 25.4 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, Wearegc needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 258.6 kB

  • Original 637.6 kB
  • After minification 614.7 kB
  • After compression 379.0 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 258.6 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 553.4 kB
  • After compression 171.7 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. Wearegc.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (67%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wearegc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wearegc.com.au accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wearegc.com.au best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wearegc.com.au SEO score

77

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

High

robots.txt is not valid

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