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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

connection.net.au

Connection - Melbourne's favourite homewares and gift store

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

Visit connection.net.au now to see the best up-to-date Connection content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about connection.net.au

Connection is a homewares, interior-decor and and gift store. Our highly talented buyers have over 35 years of buying experience and have developed a truly unique product range that combines furniture...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connection.net.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 5.8 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

connection.net.au performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.326

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.connection.net.au

2219 ms

css

66 ms

slick.css

46 ms

slick-theme.css

57 ms

app.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Connection.net.au, 12% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.neto.com.au and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Connection.net.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connection.net.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 76.6 kB

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 76.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 91 B

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 358 B

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 967 B

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Connection.net.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (50%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connection. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.connection.net.au

www.connection.net.au

2219 ms

css

css

66 ms

slick.css

slick.css

46 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

57 ms

app.css

app.css

80 ms

style.css

style.css

70 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

61 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css

62 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

59 ms

88 ms

js

js

142 ms

js

js

159 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

57 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

60 ms

main.js

main.js

61 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

61 ms

custom.js

custom.js

134 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js

61 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1158 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

48 ms

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51 ms

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19 ms

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21 ms

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8 ms

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910 ms

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2 ms

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484 ms

Accessibility Review

connection.net.au accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

connection.net.au best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

connection.net.au SEO score

82

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 Connection.net.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 Connection.net.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Connection. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: