Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

fred.com.au

Fred IT Group - your pharmacy IT solutions partner

Page Load Speed

417 ms in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

295 ms

Page Rendered

90 ms

fred.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to fred.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Fred best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about fred.com.au

Pharmacy IT solutions and services including Fred Dispense Plus, Fred Office, Fred POS Plus, Fred NXT and Fred Protect cyber security.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fred.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 385 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fred.com.au performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.321

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fred.com.au

32 ms

www.fred.com.au

60 ms

js

128 ms

formidableforms.css

12 ms

style.min.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Fred.com.au, 13% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (128 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

425.2 kB

After Optimization

278.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Fred.com.au main page is 425.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 210.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 99.0 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. 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 99.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 7.8 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, Fred needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 210.9 kB
  • After minification 210.9 kB
  • After compression 184.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 26.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Fred.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fred. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fred.com.au accessibility score

86

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

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

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

fred.com.au best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fred.com.au SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fred.com.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 Fred.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: