Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

ergon.com.au

Ergon Energy

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ergon.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ergon.com.au performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ergon.com.au

190 ms

bootstrap-custom.css

106 ms

ergon-energy_test.css

130 ms

lightbox.css

143 ms

css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Ergon.com.au, 11% (6 requests) were made to and 9% (5 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (372 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 627.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

404.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ergon.com.au main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 606.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 6.3 kB, which is 18% 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 28.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 32.9 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. Obviously, Ergon needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 381.7 kB

  • Original 606.4 kB
  • After minification 586.4 kB
  • After compression 224.7 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 381.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 211.3 kB

  • Original 351.0 kB
  • After minification 329.0 kB
  • After compression 139.7 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. Ergon.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (71%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ergon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ergon.com.au accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

ergon.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ergon.com.au SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ergon.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 Ergon.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

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