Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

fixedincomenews.com.au

Fixed Income News Australia (FINA) | Your Fixed Income Source

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

817 ms

fixedincomenews.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to fixedincomenews.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Fixed Income News best content right away, or after learning these important things about fixedincomenews.com.au

Fixed Income News (FINA) is Australia's only website providing free access to news, views and information on building wealth and security with fixed income.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fixedincomenews.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fixedincomenews.com.au performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fixedincomenews.com.au

1820 ms

jquery.min.js

440 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

660 ms

site.js

25 ms

gpt.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (135 requests) were addressed to the original Fixedincomenews.com.au, 7% (14 requests) were made to Px.moatads.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Fixedincomenews.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Fixedincomenews.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. 80% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 478.2 kB

  • Original 543.4 kB
  • After minification 497.2 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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 478.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Fixed Income News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 765.9 kB
  • After minification 765.9 kB
  • After compression 763.5 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Fixedincomenews.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (39%)

Requests Now

179

After Optimization

109

The browser has sent 179 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fixed Income News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fixedincomenews.com.au accessibility score

89

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.

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

fixedincomenews.com.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fixedincomenews.com.au SEO score

91

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 Fixedincomenews.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 Fixedincomenews.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 description is not detected on the main page of Fixed Income News. 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: