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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

efirst.com.au

Ticketing, Apps, Software Development, eCommerce - Australia - eFirst.com.au

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

670 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

80 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Efirst.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 670 ms 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

efirst.com.au performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

efirst.com.au

670 ms

www.efirst.com.au

770 ms

gstyles.css

19 ms

eFirst_header.jpg

470 ms

miff.gif

452 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Efirst.com.au, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Efirst.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.3 kB (45%)

Content Size

75.8 kB

After Optimization

41.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Efirst.com.au main page is 75.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 46.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 6.7 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. 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 4.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 387 B

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.0 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. EFirst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 29.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 249 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Efirst.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (35%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EFirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

efirst.com.au

efirst.com.au

670 ms

www.efirst.com.au

www.efirst.com.au

770 ms

gstyles.css

gstyles.css

19 ms

eFirst_header.jpg

eFirst_header.jpg

470 ms

miff.gif

miff.gif

452 ms

liv.gif

liv.gif

461 ms

uom.jpg

uom.jpg

464 ms

sff.jpg

sff.jpg

450 ms

iPhone_featured.jpg

iPhone_featured.jpg

468 ms

surf.jpg

surf.jpg

902 ms

cms_icon.gif

cms_icon.gif

891 ms

cart_icon.gif

cart_icon.gif

914 ms

ticketing_icon.gif

ticketing_icon.gif

906 ms

rssFeed2.gif

rssFeed2.gif

907 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

bg_repeat.jpg

bg_repeat.jpg

906 ms

client_login.gif

client_login.gif

1319 ms

topnav_bot_bg.gif

topnav_bot_bg.gif

1338 ms

contentBg.gif

contentBg.gif

1343 ms

home_feature_bg.gif

home_feature_bg.gif

1343 ms

footer_bot_bg.gif

footer_bot_bg.gif

1353 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

efirst.com.au accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

efirst.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

efirst.com.au SEO score

67

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

Document uses plugins

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 Efirst.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 Efirst.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

efirst.com.au

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