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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

education.net.au

The National Education Directory of Australia - The Leading online guide to ALL Schools & Higher Education in Australia & New Zealand

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

322 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Education.net.au page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

education.net.au performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

education.net.au

36 ms

education.net.au

633 ms

www.education.net.au

53 ms

www.education.net.au

23 ms

js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Education.net.au, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Education.net.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

721.4 kB

After Optimization

603.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Education.net.au main page is 721.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 380.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 107.2 kB

  • Original 123.1 kB
  • After minification 108.9 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.2 kB, which is 12% 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 107.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 380.7 kB
  • After minification 378.0 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. Education images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 213.6 kB
  • After minification 213.6 kB
  • After compression 206.8 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Education.net.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 27% 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 Education. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

education.net.au

education.net.au

36 ms

education.net.au

education.net.au

633 ms

www.education.net.au

www.education.net.au

53 ms

www.education.net.au

www.education.net.au

23 ms

js

js

62 ms

style.css

style.css

783 ms

education.css

education.css

782 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

622 ms

jquery.1.8.3.min.js

jquery.1.8.3.min.js

1025 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

1040 ms

js

js

92 ms

js

js

124 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

150 ms

js

js

64 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

collect

collect

35 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

33 ms

MainBackground.gif

MainBackground.gif

288 ms

logo.png

logo.png

772 ms

caption.png

caption.png

261 ms

slider1.png

slider1.png

516 ms

slider2.png

slider2.png

1033 ms

slider3.png

slider3.png

207 ms

slider4.png

slider4.png

1343 ms

navbg.jpg

navbg.jpg

414 ms

navhoverbg.jpg

navhoverbg.jpg

517 ms

All-Together-Now-Banner.jpg

All-Together-Now-Banner.jpg

619 ms

SubheaderSearchEducation.gif

SubheaderSearchEducation.gif

776 ms

ButtonSearch.gif

ButtonSearch.gif

777 ms

subheading_featured.gif

subheading_featured.gif

824 ms

[2272]ANGLICAN%20CHURCH%20GRAMMAR%20SCHOOL.jpg

[2272]ANGLICAN%20CHURCH%20GRAMMAR%20SCHOOL.jpg

1029 ms

[3002]QUEENWOOD.jpg

[3002]QUEENWOOD.jpg

1034 ms

[1318]LINDISFARNE%20ANGLICAN.jpg

[1318]LINDISFARNE%20ANGLICAN.jpg

1291 ms

SubheaderViewOurSubscriptio.gif

SubheaderViewOurSubscriptio.gif

1027 ms

SubheaderLatestEnrolmentEnq.gif

SubheaderLatestEnrolmentEnq.gif

1231 ms

SubheaderEducationBlogs.gif

SubheaderEducationBlogs.gif

1287 ms

school_education.gif

school_education.gif

1239 ms

aus_school_lists_banner.jpg

aus_school_lists_banner.jpg

1292 ms

Adventure-Ad-Outward-Bound.jpg

Adventure-Ad-Outward-Bound.jpg

1433 ms

Banner-Ad-Cathy-Freeman.png

Banner-Ad-Cathy-Freeman.png

1447 ms

The-Smith-Family-Banner-Ad.png

The-Smith-Family-Banner-Ad.png

1546 ms

ChildReport.jpg

ChildReport.jpg

1549 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

1549 ms

SubheaderGoogleEarthMapping.gif

SubheaderGoogleEarthMapping.gif

1604 ms

ButtonGo.gif

ButtonGo.gif

1636 ms

SubheaderWithLinksFrom2.gif

SubheaderWithLinksFrom2.gif

1655 ms

australia.gov.au.gif

australia.gov.au.gif

1803 ms

austrade.gov.au.gif

austrade.gov.au.gif

1806 ms

SubheaderJoinNewsletter3.gif

SubheaderJoinNewsletter3.gif

1919 ms

SubheaderAfterCompulsoryEducation.gif

SubheaderAfterCompulsoryEducation.gif

1867 ms

further_education.gif

further_education.gif

1866 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

42 ms

ButtonOrderStandard.gif

ButtonOrderStandard.gif

1817 ms

ButtonOrderPremium.gif

ButtonOrderPremium.gif

2017 ms

CurvedBoxTopShadow.gif

CurvedBoxTopShadow.gif

2028 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

7 ms

42 ms

CurvedBoxBg.gif

CurvedBoxBg.gif

1873 ms

CurvedBoxBottomShadow.gif

CurvedBoxBottomShadow.gif

1818 ms

FooterBackground.gif

FooterBackground.gif

1726 ms

Accessibility Review

education.net.au accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

education.net.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

education.net.au SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Education.net.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Education.net.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

education.net.au

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