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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

bcsands.com.au

BCSands Online Shop - Building and Landscape Supplies, we supply Sydney's best!

Page Load Speed

12.3 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

8.9 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcsands.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 9.1 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

bcsands.com.au performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcsands.com.au

3254 ms

stylesheet.css

1310 ms

stylesheet_calendar.css

1329 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

1339 ms

stylesheet_nav.css

1365 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Bcsands.com.au, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bcsands.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcsands.com.au main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 37.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. BCSands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 151.4 kB

  • Original 244.7 kB
  • After minification 226.6 kB
  • After compression 93.2 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 151.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Bcsands.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (26%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCSands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bcsands.com.au

bcsands.com.au

3254 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

1310 ms

stylesheet_calendar.css

stylesheet_calendar.css

1329 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

1339 ms

stylesheet_nav.css

stylesheet_nav.css

1365 ms

stylesheet_progress.css

stylesheet_progress.css

1358 ms

css

css

34 ms

jscript_calendar.js

jscript_calendar.js

1362 ms

jscript_cookies.js

jscript_cookies.js

1528 ms

jscript_jquery.min.js

jscript_jquery.min.js

2212 ms

jscript_jssor.slider.min.js

jscript_jssor.slider.min.js

1789 ms

jscript_menu.js

jscript_menu.js

1582 ms

jscript_typeahead.min.js

jscript_typeahead.min.js

1592 ms

js

js

65 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

76 ms

headerBannerMobile.png

headerBannerMobile.png

457 ms

logo-medium.gif

logo-medium.gif

445 ms

home.png

home.png

451 ms

account.png

account.png

455 ms

favourites.png

favourites.png

234 ms

cart.png

cart.png

228 ms

headerBannerFull.png

headerBannerFull.png

710 ms

accountHeader.png

accountHeader.png

471 ms

favouritesHeader.png

favouritesHeader.png

673 ms

cartHeader.png

cartHeader.png

903 ms

Home.png

Home.png

898 ms

SearchBar.gif

SearchBar.gif

680 ms

SearchIcon.png

SearchIcon.png

690 ms

Commercial1300.jpg

Commercial1300.jpg

1561 ms

BuildingProducts1300.jpg

BuildingProducts1300.jpg

1564 ms

HomepageBannerPackSize1300x418.jpg

HomepageBannerPackSize1300x418.jpg

1788 ms

Heretohelp241300.jpg

Heretohelp241300.jpg

1149 ms

building_suppliesNEW.jpg

building_suppliesNEW.jpg

1335 ms

home_landscaping.jpg

home_landscaping.jpg

1389 ms

home_turf.jpg

home_turf.jpg

1589 ms

home_soil.jpg

home_soil.jpg

1773 ms

home_mulch.jpg

home_mulch.jpg

1833 ms

home_pebbles.jpg

home_pebbles.jpg

2005 ms

OnlineDiscout.gif

OnlineDiscout.gif

2007 ms

SafeMulch.gif

SafeMulch.gif

2073 ms

SandstoneSpalls.jpg

SandstoneSpalls.jpg

2217 ms

RangeBrochure23.jpg

RangeBrochure23.jpg

2230 ms

KingsBirthday.jpg

KingsBirthday.jpg

2513 ms

MiniCrete.jpg

MiniCrete.jpg

2461 ms

PCsopttile.jpg

PCsopttile.jpg

2457 ms

FirewoodTile2021.jpg

FirewoodTile2021.jpg

2516 ms

TradingHours24.jpg

TradingHours24.jpg

2669 ms

LandscapeInspiration.jpg

LandscapeInspiration.jpg

2679 ms

PayPal.gif

PayPal.gif

2912 ms

Mastercard.gif

Mastercard.gif

2911 ms

Visa.gif

Visa.gif

2946 ms

56 ms

b06551cbf4632d86d77733dbe.js

b06551cbf4632d86d77733dbe.js

61 ms

37 ms

31 ms

keywords.json

keywords.json

2515 ms

YouTubeIcon.png

YouTubeIcon.png

2900 ms

FacebookIcon.png

FacebookIcon.png

2464 ms

InstaIcon.png

InstaIcon.png

2902 ms

print_stylesheet.css

print_stylesheet.css

224 ms

Accessibility Review

bcsands.com.au accessibility score

54

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bcsands.com.au best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bcsands.com.au SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bcsands.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 Bcsands.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

bcsands.com.au

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