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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

whitworths.com.au

Whitworths Marine and Leisure: Discount Marine Supplies

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whitworths.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whitworths.com.au performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.whitworths.com.au

1099 ms

calendar.min.css

19 ms

styles-m.min.css

21 ms

chosen.min.css

18 ms

swiper.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 261 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (233 requests) were addressed to the original Whitworths.com.au, 5% (14 requests) were made to Aus-widget.freshworks.com and 2% (5 requests) were made to Snapui.searchspring.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Whitworths.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whitworths.com.au main page is 2.2 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 940.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 335.0 kB

  • Original 392.8 kB
  • After minification 389.9 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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 335.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 720.4 kB
  • After minification 720.4 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. Whitworths images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 940.8 kB
  • After minification 940.3 kB
  • After compression 879.1 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 128.8 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. Whitworths.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 178 (71%)

Requests Now

252

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 252 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whitworths. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 169 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

whitworths.com.au accessibility score

73

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

whitworths.com.au best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

whitworths.com.au SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Whitworths.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 Whitworths.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 description is not detected on the main page of Whitworths. 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: