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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

boc.com.au

BOC Gas: Australia's Leading Gas & Welding Equipment Specialist

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing BOC content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boc.com.au

BOC is Australia's leading gas & welding equipment specialist, offering gases, welders & welding supplies, PPE, workplace safety & industrial equipment

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boc.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boc.com.au performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.547

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

1183 ms

jquery.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap.css

33 ms

main.red.css

33 ms

validateForm.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Boc.com.au, 51% (32 requests) were made to Static.prd.echannel.linde.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Boc.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (48%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boc.com.au main page is 3.0 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. 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. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 685.7 kB

  • Original 812.9 kB
  • After minification 634.8 kB
  • After compression 127.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 178.1 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 685.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. BOC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 653.4 kB

  • Original 927.5 kB
  • After minification 926.9 kB
  • After compression 274.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 653.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 104.0 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 235.5 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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. Boc.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.0 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (18%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BOC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

1183 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

33 ms

main.red.css

main.red.css

33 ms

validateForm.js

validateForm.js

38 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

74 ms

homePage.min.js

homePage.min.js

72 ms

rum.min.js

rum.min.js

339 ms

main.red-part1.css

main.red-part1.css

33 ms

main.red-part2.css

main.red-part2.css

20 ms

apploader.gif

apploader.gif

209 ms

BOC_Logo_2022.svg

BOC_Logo_2022.svg

368 ms

ico_location.svg

ico_location.svg

364 ms

ico_reorder.svg

ico_reorder.svg

197 ms

ico_account.svg

ico_account.svg

196 ms

ico_cart.svg

ico_cart.svg

186 ms

QDoc7qaNIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=

QDoc7qaNIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=

65 ms

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67 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

YpG0yAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC

YpG0yAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC

62 ms

Customer_Area_of_Interest

Customer_Area_of_Interest

222 ms

LindeDaxOffice.woff

LindeDaxOffice.woff

357 ms

LindeDaxOfficeMedium.woff

LindeDaxOfficeMedium.woff

148 ms

LindeDaxOffice-Bold.woff

LindeDaxOffice-Bold.woff

206 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

299 ms

medical-devices-brochure-icon.jpg

medical-devices-brochure-icon.jpg

166 ms

ico_search.svg

ico_search.svg

105 ms

ico_burger_close.svg

ico_burger_close.svg

101 ms

account-opening.png

account-opening.png

154 ms

BOC_Gas_Gear_003.png

BOC_Gas_Gear_003.png

159 ms

App_Store.svg

App_Store.svg

157 ms

google_play.svg

google_play.svg

166 ms

rwd-credit-cards.png

rwd-credit-cards.png

170 ms

geotrust.svg

geotrust.svg

160 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

274 ms

ico_facebook.png

ico_facebook.png

585 ms

ico_youtube.png

ico_youtube.png

273 ms

gas_bn.jpg

gas_bn.jpg

75 ms

gas-cutting-welding-brazing-banner_bn.jpg

gas-cutting-welding-brazing-banner_bn.jpg

76 ms

MIG-fluxcored-welding-banner_bn.jpg

MIG-fluxcored-welding-banner_bn.jpg

177 ms

TIG-banner_bn.jpg

TIG-banner_bn.jpg

694 ms

plasma-cutting-banner_bn.jpg

plasma-cutting-banner_bn.jpg

207 ms

Weld-Safety-PPE-banner_bn.jpg

Weld-Safety-PPE-banner_bn.jpg

814 ms

medical-gas_tn.jpg

medical-gas_tn.jpg

209 ms

clinical_equipment_tn.jpg

clinical_equipment_tn.jpg

208 ms

medical%20clinics%20banner%20image.jpg

medical%20clinics%20banner%20image.jpg

210 ms

dentist%20banner%20image.jpg

dentist%20banner%20image.jpg

209 ms

vet%20banner%20image.jpg

vet%20banner%20image.jpg

209 ms

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pharmacies1.png

212 ms

Sleep-banner-f.jpg

Sleep-banner-f.jpg

210 ms

banner_homecare_1600x273.jpg

banner_homecare_1600x273.jpg

210 ms

medical-equipment_bn.jpg

medical-equipment_bn.jpg

212 ms

food-beverage-gas-mixtures_tn.jpg

food-beverage-gas-mixtures_tn.jpg

211 ms

FlexiGas-1200x400-WebBannerNew.jpg

FlexiGas-1200x400-WebBannerNew.jpg

213 ms

hiq-cylinder_tn.jpg

hiq-cylinder_tn.jpg

214 ms

cryo_equipment_tn.jpg

cryo_equipment_tn.jpg

215 ms

app-2phones.png

app-2phones.png

215 ms

ico_extern-link.svg

ico_extern-link.svg

163 ms

ico_burger_close.svg

ico_burger_close.svg

44 ms

js

js

223 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

213 ms

loading_spinner.gif

loading_spinner.gif

74 ms

Accessibility Review

boc.com.au accessibility score

57

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

boc.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

boc.com.au SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Boc.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 Boc.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

boc.com.au

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